gor
"gor" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,170) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,170
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - God.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gor · gor · English
gor · rank #43,170 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,170
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH glyphs
Nearest frequency peer: glyphs (-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 “gor”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- ghee
ghee
56,834 corpus weight
- Girolamo
Girolamo
56,833 corpus weight
- glyphs
glyphs
56,832 corpus weight
- gor
gor
56,831 corpus weight
- Gott
Gott
56,830 corpus weight
- gouging
gouging
56,829 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “gor” 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 | gor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “gor”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gor is neighbouring look-alikes ("GP", "GS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #43,170 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Gloss: "God.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gor in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: A minced oath or dialectal variant of God. Compare cor. The correct English form is gor, spelled G-O-R.
Definition
- 1God.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
By gor, den, we must needs now sing. Ding, ding, ading, Dinga, dinga, ding. For me am now at pleasures spring.
Well, the last bishkit was sarved out, and by gor, the wather itself was all gone at last, and we passed the night mighty cowld.
Etymology
A minced oath or dialectal variant of God. Compare cor.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).