GMAT
/ˈd͡ʒiːmæt/
"gmat" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“GMAT” is uncommon English (frequency #69,892 among 18,276 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,892
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acronym of Graduate Management Admission Test.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | GMAT |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒiːmæt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “GMAT” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
GMAT is uncommon English at frequency #69,892 among 18,276 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈd͡ʒiːmæt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acronym of Graduate Management Admission Test.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for GMAT, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is GMAT, spelled G-M-A-T.
Definition
- 1Acronym of Graduate Management Admission Test.
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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Using “GMAT”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-M-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.