gall bladder
/ˈɡɑl.blæɾɚ/
"gall-bladder" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gall bladder” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gall-bladder · gall bladder · English
gall bladder · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gall bladder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɑl.blæɾɚ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gall bladder” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gall bladder is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡɑl.blæɾɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum.".
gall bladder doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is gall bladder, spelled G-A-L-L- -B-L-A-D-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gall bladder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Giraffes, oddly, sometimes have gall bladders and sometimes donʼt.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.