gouch
/ɡaʊt͡ʃ/
"gouch" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gouch” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of gooch.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gouch · gouch · English
gouch · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gouch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡaʊt͡ʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gouch” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gouch is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡaʊt͡ʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of gooch.".
gouch doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is gouch, spelled G-O-U-C-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of gooch.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gouch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fingal counted eleven tick bites - that he could see. A few more could be felt: one on his left arse cheek, for example, one on his scalp, and two in the perineum, or the gouch, the area of skin between a human's anus and scrotum (some Australians, he'd learned, also referred to the gouch as the as the aintcha, as in "well it aintcha balls, or your arse")…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.