grove
/ɡɹoʊv/noun, verb
grove is spelled G-R-O-V-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, grove means “A small forest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of grove is groves.
How many letters and syllables are in grove?
| Letters | 5: G-R-O-V-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.7 times per million words; the 7,797th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 grove?
Grove appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th 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 grove?
- UK /ɡɹəʊv/
- US /ɡɹoʊv/
Grove 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-us-grove.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with grove
Also written: gro.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with grove?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as grove from its last stressed vowel (/oʊv/):
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 grove
- groves plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- groving participle, present
- groved participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does grove mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small forest.
- 2
A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
Near-synonym: woodland
- 3
An orchard of fruit trees.
- 4
A place of worship.
- 5
A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
verb
- 1
To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
- 2
To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
- 3
To plough or gouge with lines.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate grove?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of grove: gro.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Grove in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense small forest:
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 grove come from?
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”). Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).