gulfs
/ɡʌlfs/
"gulfs" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gulfs” is uncommon English (frequency #97,083 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,083
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of gulf
Corpus desk
Index EN-gulfs · gulfs · English
gulfs · rank #97,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,083
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH guarana
Nearest frequency peer: guarana (-1 rank slots)
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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 “gulfs”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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gridded
2,922 corpus weight
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2,920 corpus weight
- guarana
guarana
2,919 corpus weight
- gulfs
gulfs
2,918 corpus weight
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gunsmoke
2,917 corpus weight
- Hagley
Hagley
2,915 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “gulfs” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gulfs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡʌlfs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gulfs” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gulfs is uncommon English at frequency #97,083 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡʌlfs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of gulf".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gulfs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is gulfs, spelled G-U-L-F-S.
Definition
- 1plural of gulf
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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