GOS
"gos" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“GOS” is uncommon English (frequency #55,467 among 18,276 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,467
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Initialism of galactooligosaccharides.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gos · GOS · English
GOS · rank #55,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,467
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Govinda
Nearest frequency peer: Govinda (+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 neighbourhood for “GOS”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gnat
gnat
44,539 corpus weight
- gnats
gnats
44,538 corpus weight
- GOS
GOS
44,534 corpus weight
- Govinda
Govinda
44,533 corpus weight
- Grecian
Grecian
44,532 corpus weight
- grossest
grossest
44,530 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “GOS” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | GOS |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “GOS” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
GOS is uncommon English at frequency #55,467 among 18,276 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of galactooligosaccharides.".
GOS doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is GOS, spelled G-O-S.
Definition
- 1Initialism of galactooligosaccharides.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.