groyne
/ɡɹɔɪn/noun
groyne is a noun meaning “An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-O-Y-N-E, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of groyne is groynes.
What does groyne mean?
noun
- 1
An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce groyne?
- /ɡɹɔɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of groyne
- groynes plural
- groin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is groyne?
Groyne appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).
Groyne in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense structure to prevent erosion:
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 groyne come from?
From Middle English groyn (“snout”), from Old French groign, from Late Latin grunium, grunia, from Latin grunnire (“grunt like a pig”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).