grumps
/ɡɹʌmps/
"grumps" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grumps” is uncommon English (frequency #69,905 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,905
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of grump
Corpus desk
Index EN-grumps · grumps · English
grumps · rank #69,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,905
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gristle
Nearest frequency peer: gristle (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “grumps”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gorging
gorging
30,103 corpus weight
- gristle
gristle
30,097 corpus weight
- grumps
grumps
30,096 corpus weight
- guar
guar
30,095 corpus weight
- Gurung
Gurung
30,092 corpus weight
- Hammad
Hammad
30,089 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grumps” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grumps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɹʌmps/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grumps” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grumps is uncommon English at frequency #69,905 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɹʌmps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of grump".
grumps has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is grumps, spelled G-R-U-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of grump
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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