gizzard
/ˈɡɪzɚd/noun
gizzard is spelled G-I-Z-Z-A-R-D. The wrong spelling people search most is gizard: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Gizzard is a noun meaning “A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals…”. The plural of gizzard is gizzards.
How many letters and syllables are in gizzard?
| Letters | 7: G-I-Z-Z-A-R-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 60,838th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, gizard, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell gizzard?
Gizzard is spelled G-I-Z-Z-A-R-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 31 of the searches for gizzard in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is gizzard?
Gizzard appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce gizzard?
- UK /ˈɡɪzəd/
- US /ˈɡɪzɚd/
- Australia /ˈɡɪzəd/
Gizzard has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gizzard.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-gizzard.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with gizzard?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as gizzard from its last stressed vowel (/ɪzəɹd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of gizzard
- gizzards plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does gizzard mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans, and used for grinding up food, often aided by particles of stone or grit.
- 2
slangThe (human) stomach.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Gizzard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense portion of the esophagus with ingested grit:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gizzard come from?
From Middle English gyser, geser, from Old French gesier, giser et al. (French gésier), from Latin gigēria.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).