Grievence or grievance?
Did you mean grievance? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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grievence
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grievance
Correct spelling: grievance. Misspelling: grievence.
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Memory tip
Grieve + ance: I before E, and the ending is -ance.
Why people write “grievence”
The endings -ance and -ence sound identical in speech; this word takes -ance.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make grievance automatic.
Other misspellings of “grievance”
People also write “greivance”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“greivance”
Correct spelling: grievance. Misspelling: greivance.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “greivance” is only one letter off: it writes EI instead of IE, the classic "i before e" trap.
What does “grievance” mean?
grievance noun
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Grievance” in a sentence
- He filed a formal grievance.
- Holding a grudge.
Is “grievance” a playable word?
15 points in Scrabble · 19 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“grievence” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from GRIEVANCE.