growth
/ɡɹoʊθ/noun
growth is spelled G-R-O-W-T-H: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 107 times per million words in written English, the 996th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, growth means “An increase in size, number, value, or strength” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of growth is growths.
How many letters and syllables are in growth?
| Letters | 6: G-R-O-W-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 107 times per million words; the 996th 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 growth?
Growth appears 107 times per million words in written English, the 996th 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 growth?
- US /ɡɹoʊθ/
- UK /ɡɹəʊθ/
- /ɡɹʌot/
Growth 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-growth.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with growth?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as growth from its last stressed vowel (/oʊθ/):
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 growth
- growths plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does growth mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
Nanoelectronics is one of the area's few growth industries .
- 2
Ellipsis of economic growth.
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
- 3
An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
- 4
The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
- 5
Something that grows or has grown.
- 6
An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Growth in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | croissance |
| German | Wachstum , Bewuchs, Vegetation, Wuchs, Bewucherung |
| Portuguese | acréscimo, crescimento |
| Spanish | crecimiento |
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 growth come from?
From grow + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old Frisian grēd ("meadow, pasture"; > North Frisian greyde (“growth, pasture”)), Middle High German gruote, gruot (“greens, fresh growth, shoot”), Old Norse gróðr ("growth, crop"; > Faroese grøði, Danish grøde (“fruits”), Swedish gröda (“crop, harvest”)). More at grow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).