grown
/ɡɹoʊn/adjective, verb
grown is spelled G-R-O-W-N: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, grown means “Covered by growth; overgrown” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in grown?
| Letters | 5: G-R-O-W-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 47 times per million words; the 2,153rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is grown?
Grown appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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 grown?
- UK /ɡɹəʊn/
- US /ɡɹoʊn/
- /ˈɡɹɐʉn/
Grown 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-grown.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with grown
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with grown?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as grown from its last stressed vowel (/oʊn/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: wrong.
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 grown
- more grown comparative
- most grown superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does grown mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Covered by growth; overgrown.
What once was a farm was grown with trees.
- 2
USOf a person: adult.
grown woman/man/adult
verb
- 1
past participle of grow
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does grown come from?
From Middle English growen. Morphologically grow + -n.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).