grouse
/ɡɹaʊs/
"grouse" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grouse” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,178. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,178
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to hea...
Corpus desk
Index EN-grouse · grouse · English
grouse · rank #24,178 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,178
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gripped
Nearest frequency peer: gripped (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “grouse”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- grating
grating
75,826 corpus weight
- grilling
grilling
75,825 corpus weight
- gripped
gripped
75,824 corpus weight
- grouse
grouse
75,823 corpus weight
- growl
growl
75,822 corpus weight
- habitual
habitual
75,820 corpus weight
What this shows “grouse” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹaʊs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “grouse”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around grouse (IPA /ɡɹaʊs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,178 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for grouse, with forms such as "ggrouse", "goruse", and "grosue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "grows", "grove", "grout", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Attested in the 1530s, as grows ("moorhen"), a plural used collectively. The origin of the noun is unknown; the following derivations have been suggested: * From Old French grue (“crane”) (modern French grue) or Medieval Latin gruta (“crane”), both from Lat… The correct English form is grouse, spelled G-R-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles.
- 2The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Among fowls for the table [of King Henry VIII] are crocards, winders, runners, grows, and peions, but neither Turky or Guiney-fowl.
Looke to 't, young growſe: Ile lay it on, and ſure; / Take 't off who's wull.
Etymology
Attested in the 1530s, as grows ("moorhen"), a plural used collectively. The origin of the noun is unknown; the following derivations have been suggested: * From Old French grue (“crane”) (modern French grue) or Medieval Latin gruta (“crane”), both from Latin grūs (“crane”). * Borrowed from Celtic or a different Medieval Latin word. * Imitative of the bird’s call. The verb is derived from the noun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrouse
- goruse
- grosue
- groues
- grousse
- grrouse
- gruose
- rgouse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grouse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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