gault
"gault" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gault” is uncommon English (frequency #55,454 among 18,276 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,454
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gault · gault · English
gault · rank #55,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,454
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,276
- PHOTO-FINISH gerrit
Nearest frequency peer: gerrit (+2 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “gault”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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44,554 corpus weight
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gac
44,551 corpus weight
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Gallaudet
44,550 corpus weight
- gault
gault
44,547 corpus weight
- gerrit
gerrit
44,545 corpus weight
- glial
glial
44,543 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “gault” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gault |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gault” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gault is uncommon English at frequency #55,454 among 18,276 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gault, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Of local origin, used by quarrymen and brickmakers to refer to the type of soil. First attested in writing as "golt" in 1815 (William Smith) and "gault" in 1816 (J Hailstone). The correct English form is gault, spelled G-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks.
Etymology
Of local origin, used by quarrymen and brickmakers to refer to the type of soil. First attested in writing as "golt" in 1815 (William Smith) and "gault" in 1816 (J Hailstone).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.