grunted
/ˈɡɹʌntɪd/
"grunted" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grunted” is uncommon English (frequency #68,270 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,270
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of grunt
Corpus desk
Index EN-grunted · grunted · English
grunted · rank #68,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,270
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grovel
Nearest frequency peer: grovel (-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 “grunted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grift
grift
31,734 corpus weight
- Grigory
Grigory
31,733 corpus weight
- grovel
grovel
31,732 corpus weight
- grunted
grunted
31,731 corpus weight
- Gujrat
Gujrat
31,730 corpus weight
- GWB
GWB
31,729 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grunted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grunted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹʌntɪd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grunted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grunted is uncommon English at frequency #68,270 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈɡɹʌntɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of grunt".
Zero misspellings are on record for grunted in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is grunted, spelled G-R-U-N-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of grunt
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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