# Georg

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #24,165

## Definitions
1. A male given name, a Scandinavian and continental Germanic variant of George.
2. A surname transferred from the given name.
3. A notional individual who has, eats, or does an extremely large number of a specified thing, skewing statistical averages.

## Etymology
From Danish, Estonian, Faroese, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Georg, from Latin Geōrgius. The slang sense is from Spiders Georg.

## Easily confused with
- **ger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-ger)
- **gor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gor)
- **gog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gog)
- **gore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gore)
- **gong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gong)
- **germ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-germ)
- **gory** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gory)
- **GERD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gerd)
- **Geri** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-geri)
- **grog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-grog)
- **gert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gert)
- **Gere** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gere)
- **glory** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-glory)
- **Gerry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gerry)
- **gorge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-gorge)
- **George** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-george)
- **Georgi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-georgi)
- **Georgia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-georgia)
- **Georges** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-georges)
- **Georgie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/georg-vs-georgie)

## Common misspellings (7)
`egorg`, `geogr`, `georgg`, `georrg`, `gerog`, `ggeorg`, `goerg`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/georg