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groupoid

/ˈɡɹuːpɔɪd/noun

groupoid is spelled G-R-O-U-P-O-I-D: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, groupoid means “A magma: a set with a total binary operation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of groupoid is groupoids.

How many letters and syllables are in groupoid?

Letters8: G-R-O-U-P-O-I-D
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is groupoid?

Groupoid appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).

How do you pronounce groupoid?

  • /ˈɡɹuːpɔɪd/

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

Forms of groupoid

  • groupoids plural

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

What does groupoid mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A magma: a set with a total binary operation.

  2. 2

    A set with a partial binary operation that is associative and has identities and inverses.

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

Groupoid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishgrupoide (a magma)
Frenchgroupoïde (a set with a partial binary operation..)
GermanGruppoid (a set with a partial binary operation..)
Portuguesegrupoide (a set with a partial binary operation..)

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 groupoid come from?

From group + -oid.

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

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