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grouper

UK /ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/noun

grouper is a noun meaning “Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-O-U-P-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of grouper is groupers.

What does grouper mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.

  2. 2

    One who groups things.

  3. 3

    datedA groupie.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce grouper?

  • UK /ˈɡɹuːpə(ɹ)/

Grouper has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-grouper.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of grouper

  • groupers plural
  • groper

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is grouper?

Grouper appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Grouper in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense fish:

LanguageWords
Frenchmérou
GermanZackenbarsch
Portuguesegaroupa
Spanishmero, cherna

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does grouper come from?

From Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare garrupa.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).