# gore

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɡɔː/ · frequency rank #10,373

## Definitions
1. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. A gout or mass of such blood.
3. Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
4. Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.

## Etymology
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”).
Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt-esc earth”).

## Easily confused with
- **GR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gr)
- **got** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-got)
- **GRE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gre)
- **GRU** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gru)
- **GTR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gtr)
- **gow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gow)
- **gro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gro)
- **grr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-grr)
- **grt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-grt)
- **grew** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-grew)
- **grey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-grey)
- **Greg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-greg)
- **gosh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gosh)
- **guru** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-guru)
- **gown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gown)
- **goth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-goth)
- **GOTO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-goto)
- **gout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gout)
- **gory** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-gory)
- **goss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gore-vs-goss)

## Common misspellings (3)
`ggore`, `gorre`, `groe`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/gore