wholegrain
noun
wholegrain is a noun meaning “A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-H-O-L-E-G-R-A-I-N, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of wholegrain is wholegrains.
What does wholegrain mean?
noun
- 1
A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of wholegrain
- wholegrains plural
- whole grain
- whole-grain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is wholegrain?
Wholegrain appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).
Wholegrain in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cereal grain that contains germ, endosperm, and bran:
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 wholegrain come from?
From whole + grain.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).