Gola
"gola" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Gola” is uncommon English (frequency #98,171 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,171
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A language spoken in eastern Liberia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gola · Gola · English
Gola · rank #98,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,171
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH goalkicker
Nearest frequency peer: goalkicker (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “Gola”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- glibly
glibly
1,836 corpus weight
- gloaming
gloaming
1,834 corpus weight
- gluconate
gluconate
1,833 corpus weight
- goalkicker
goalkicker
1,832 corpus weight
- Gola
Gola
1,830 corpus weight
- Grandison
Grandison
1,824 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Gola” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gola |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Gola” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Gola is uncommon English at frequency #98,171 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A language spoken in eastern Liberia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Gola in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Gola, spelled G-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1A language spoken in eastern Liberia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Most De speak Gola fluently and many also speak Vai.
Nevertheless, some still remember how to speak Gola, occasionally uphold their Gola origins, and seem to reflect them in the orientation of certain social values.
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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