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gore

/ɡoɹ/noun, verb

gore is spelled G-O-R-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gore means “Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gore is gores.

How many letters and syllables are in gore?

Letters4: G-O-R-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.6 times per million words; the 10,358th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is gore?

Gore appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce gore?

  • UK /ɡɔː/
  • US /ɡoɹ/
  • /ɡo(ː)ɹ/

Gore has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gore.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with gore?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as gore from its last stressed vowel (/oɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ogre, ergo, goer, rego.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of gore

  • gores plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • goring participle, present
  • gored participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does gore mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA gout or mass of such blood.

  3. 3

    Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.

  4. 4

    Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.

  5. 5

    Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.

  6. 6

    A triangular piece of land where roads meet.

  7. 7

    archaicA triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.

  8. 8

    USA small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.

  9. 9

    The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.

  10. 10

    A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.

  11. 11

    An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.

  12. 12

    A projecting point.

  13. 13

    A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.

verb

  1. 1

    To pierce with a horn or tusk.

    The bull gored the matador.

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo needle or wound the feelings of.

  4. 4

    To cut into a triangular form.

  5. 5

    To provide with a gore.

    to gore an apron

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo cover or smear with blood.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Gore in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsang coagulé (thick blood), encorner (to pierce with a horn), musoir (triangular piece of land where roads meet), godet (triangular patch of fabric), gousset (heraldic charge)
GermanBlut, geronnenes Blut (thick blood), aufspießen, stechen (to pierce with a horn), Gehre, Zwickel (triangular patch of fabric)
Portuguesesangue coagulado (thick blood), chifrar, cornear (to pierce with a horn), nesga (heraldic charge)
Spanishsangre cuajada, sangre de la herida, coágulo, sangre, crúor (thick blood), cornear (to pierce with a horn)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does gore come from?

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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