gorged
/ɡɔːdʒd/
"gorged" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gorged” is uncommon English (frequency #77,719 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,719
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - With a stomach stuffed full of food.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gorged · gorged · English
gorged · rank #77,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,719
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Goryeo
Nearest frequency peer: Goryeo (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “gorged”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Goodenough
Goodenough
22,285 corpus weight
- goog
goog
22,284 corpus weight
- gorged
gorged
22,282 corpus weight
- Goryeo
Goryeo
22,281 corpus weight
- Gotland
Gotland
22,280 corpus weight
- Gottschalk
Gottschalk
22,279 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gorged” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gorged |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɡɔːdʒd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gorged” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gorged is uncommon English at frequency #77,719 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɡɔːdʒd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
gorged has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gorge + -ed. The correct English form is gorged, spelled G-O-R-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1With a stomach stuffed full of food.
- 2With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
- 3Having a gorge or throat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gorged appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
Etymology
From gorge + -ed.
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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