gauzy
"gauzy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gauzy” is uncommon English (frequency #78,625 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,625
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gauzy · gauzy · English
gauzy · rank #78,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,625
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gari
Nearest frequency peer: gari (-1 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 “gauzy”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- fudd
fudd
21,383 corpus weight
- galatea
galatea
21,381 corpus weight
- gamertag
gamertag
21,379 corpus weight
- gari
gari
21,377 corpus weight
- gauzy
gauzy
21,376 corpus weight
- Gbe
Gbe
21,375 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “gauzy” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gauzy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gauzy” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gauzy is uncommon English at frequency #78,625 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for gauzy in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gauze + -y. The correct English form is gauzy, spelled G-A-U-Z-Y.
Definition
- 1Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.
- 2light; giving the effect of haze
- 3vague or elusive
- 4tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gauzy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life.
The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
Etymology
From gauze + -y.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.