guk
"guk" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guk” is uncommon English (frequency #62,184 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,184
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A class of soup-like dishes in Korean cuisine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guk · guk · English
guk · rank #62,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,184
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Göttingen
Nearest frequency peer: Göttingen (+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 “guk”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Grozny
Grozny
37,820 corpus weight
- GRS
GRS
37,819 corpus weight
- guk
guk
37,817 corpus weight
- Göttingen
Göttingen
37,816 corpus weight
- hackman
hackman
37,815 corpus weight
- hallucinate
hallucinate
37,813 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “guk” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guk” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guk is uncommon English at frequency #62,184 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A class of soup-like dishes in Korean cuisine.".
guk has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Korean 국 (guk, “soup”). The correct English form is guk, spelled G-U-K.
Definition
- 1A class of soup-like dishes in Korean cuisine.
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 국 (guk, “soup”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).