Grouped

How to spell grouped

7 letters · 1 syllable

How to pronounce grouped

What does grouped mean?

1. verbPast tense of group: gathered or arranged people or things into clusters or categories.

Grouped in a sentence

• The accountant grouped the receipts by month before filing them.

• Visitors were grouped into small parties for the guided tour.

Where does grouped come from?

Language of origin: French

This is the past tense of the verb 'group', which English took from the French groupe in the 1600s. The French word itself was borrowed from the Italian gruppo, meaning a cluster, knot, or assemblage, and it was first used by artists to describe a set of figures arranged together in a painting or sculpture. Behind the Italian form lies a Germanic root related to a rounded mass or lump, the same idea that gives us 'crop' and 'cropping' up in a heap. The artistic 'cluster of figures' sense broadened over time into the general meaning of any collection of people or things considered together. The spelling stays predictable here: the base word keeps its single 'p', and the suffix simply adds '-ed', so the only real care needed is resisting the urge to double the 'p'.

How the word is built

• group (from French groupe: a cluster or assemblage)
• -ed (past tense/past participle suffix)