grouping

/ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/noun, verb

grouping is spelled G-R-O-U-P-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grouping means “A collection of things or people united as a group” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grouping is groupings.

How many letters and syllables are in grouping?

Letters	8: G-R-O-U-P-I-N-G
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	2.9 times per million words; the 15,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is grouping?

Grouping appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form in the list.

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rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

How do you pronounce grouping?

/ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/

Grouping 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)-Persent101-grouping.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of grouping

groupings plural

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

What does grouping mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
A collection of things or people united as a group.
2
Combining into groups.
3
Shot grouping.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of group (a form of group)