GOL
"gol" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“GOL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,149) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,149
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Game of Life.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gol · GOL · English
GOL · rank #41,149 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,149
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH golly
Nearest frequency peer: golly (+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 “GOL”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Germaine
Germaine
58,855 corpus weight
- girder
girder
58,854 corpus weight
- GOL
GOL
58,852 corpus weight
- golly
golly
58,851 corpus weight
- gonorrhea
gonorrhea
58,850 corpus weight
- Gopal
Gopal
58,849 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “GOL” 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 | GOL |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “GOL”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GOL is neighbouring look-alikes ("GP", "GS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #41,149 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of Game of Life.".
GOL doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GP", "GS", "GR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is GOL, spelled G-O-L.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Game of Life.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how GOL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Any info about optimal GOL-algorithms are also welcome. The algorithm I figured is quite fast, but certainly not optimal.. I am using 320x198 (=63360) array of cells, and with my machine I am getting about 7.7 generations per second, but with some assembly optimizing I could be even faster.
Can someone please tell me if/where there is a central repository or web site to which GoL pattern files may be posted? I have been doing some modest engineering/artwork in GoL that I wud like 2 share with others.
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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