GMO
"gmo" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“GMO” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,935) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,935
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genetically modified.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gmo · GMO · English
GMO · rank #20,935 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,935
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gillespie
Nearest frequency peer: Gillespie (-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 neighbours of confusable “GMO”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- geologic
geologic
79,069 corpus weight
- giggling
giggling
79,068 corpus weight
- Gillespie
Gillespie
79,067 corpus weight
- GMO
GMO
79,066 corpus weight
- Goldstein
Goldstein
79,065 corpus weight
- gowns
gowns
79,063 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “GMO” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | GMO |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “GMO”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GMO is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GP", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #20,935 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Genetically modified.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for GMO, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GP", "GS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is GMO, spelled G-M-O.
Definition
- 1Genetically modified.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how GMO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
About 93 percent of the soybeans grown in the United States are GMO.
Since 85 to 95% of these crops are GMO, it is safe to assume – unless provided proper certification – that “normal” dairy products contain GMO ingredients in one form or another.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).