grandma

Other forms of grandma

plural

grandmas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grandma

What does grandma mean?

grandma means "the mother of your father or mother".

How many syllables are in grandma?

grandma has 2 syllables: grand-ma. The stress falls on "grand". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹændmɑ/.

What is another word for grandma?

Close synonyms include grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grandma a common word?

grandma is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.