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grouse

/ɡɹaʊs/noun, verb, adjective

grouse is spelled G-R-O-U-S-E: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grouse means “Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grouse is grouses.

How many letters and syllables are in grouse?

Letters6: G-R-O-U-S-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is grouse?

Grouse appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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 grouse?

  • US /ɡɹaʊs/
  • Australia /ɡræɔs/
  • /ɡræus/

Grouse has one syllable (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: En-au-grouse.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with grouse?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as grouse from its last stressed vowel (/aʊs/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: rugose.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of grouse

  • grouses plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • grousing participle, present
  • groused participle, past
  • grouser comparative
  • grousest superlative

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

What does grouse mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles.

  2. 2

    The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

  3. 3

    informalA cause for complaint; a grumble.

verb

  1. 1

    To hunt or shoot grouse.

  2. 2

    informalTo complain or grumble.

adjective

  1. 1

    AustraliaslangExcellent.

    I had a grouse day.

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

Grouse in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcoq de bruyère (any of various game birds of the subfamily…)
GermanRaufußhuhn (any of various game birds of the subfamily…), murren, grummeln (to complain or grumble)
Portuguesetetraz, galo-silvestre (any of various game birds of the subfamily…)
Spanishtetraónino, urogallo (any of various game birds of the subfamily…), quejarse (to complain or grumble)

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 grouse come from?

Attested in the 1530s, as grows ("moorhen"), a plural used collectively.

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

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