guff
/ɡʌf/
"guff" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guff” is uncommon English (frequency #66,699 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,699
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nonsensical talk or thinking.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guff · guff · English
guff · rank #66,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,699
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH guanine
Nearest frequency peer: guanine (-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 “guff”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gravesite
gravesite
33,307 corpus weight
- grouch
grouch
33,305 corpus weight
- guanine
guanine
33,303 corpus weight
- guff
guff
33,302 corpus weight
- gummi
gummi
33,301 corpus weight
- gunny
gunny
33,300 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “guff” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guff |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡʌf/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guff” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guff is uncommon English at frequency #66,699 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡʌf/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for guff in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is guff, spelled G-U-F-F.
Definition
- 1Nonsensical talk or thinking.
- 2Superfluous information.
- 3Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
- 4A fart; act of breaking wind.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.”
“Oh, my God. Did-did you guys kill him?” “No! No one murdered him” “No! What... He was just...” “We found him in there.” “(laughs) I'm just giving you guff. And, uh, just so you know, I am feeding on you guys right now.”
This word in other languages
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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