gord
/ɡɔː(ɹ)d/
"gord" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gord” is uncommon English (frequency #57,412 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,412
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gord · gord · English
gord · rank #57,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,412
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH goldfinch
Nearest frequency peer: goldfinch (-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 “gord”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gluck
gluck
42,593 corpus weight
- goggle
goggle
42,592 corpus weight
- goldfinch
goldfinch
42,591 corpus weight
- gord
gord
42,589 corpus weight
- greenest
greenest
42,587 corpus weight
- Guangxi
Guangxi
42,586 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gord” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gord |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɔː(ɹ)d/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gord” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gord is uncommon English at frequency #57,412 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡɔː(ɹ)d/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.".
gord doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd. The correct English form is gord, spelled G-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gord appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And thy dry bones can reach at nothing now, But gords or nine-pins
Etymology
Perhaps hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).