got
/ɡɒt/
"got" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“got” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #130) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #130
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expressing obligation; used with have.
Corpus desk
Index EN-got · got · English
got · rank #130 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #130
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH many
Nearest frequency peer: many (+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 neighbours of confusable “got”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- still
still
99,874 corpus weight
- take
take
99,873 corpus weight
- got
got
99,871 corpus weight
- many
many
99,870 corpus weight
- never
never
99,869 corpus weight
- those
those
99,868 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “got” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | got |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡɒt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “got”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for got is neighbouring look-alikes ("GP", "GS", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ɡɒt/. Frequency #130 among 2,313 “G” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for got in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GP", "GS", "GR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is got, spelled G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Expressing obligation; used with have.
- 2Must; have/has (to).
- 3Have/has.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how got appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I can’t go out tonight: I’ve got to study for my exams.
I got to go study.
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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