grocery

Other forms of grocery

plural

groceries·

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 grocery

What does grocery mean?

grocery means "a marketplace where groceries are sold". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grocery?

grocery has 3 syllables: gro-ce-ry. The stress falls on "gro". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹoʊsɚi/.

What is another word for grocery?

Close synonyms include grocery store, food market, market, foodstuff. 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 grocery a common word?

grocery is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.