gulps
/ɡʌlps/
"gulps" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gulps” is uncommon English (frequency #63,662 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,662
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of gulp
Corpus desk
Index EN-gulps · gulps · English
gulps · rank #63,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,662
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH guna
Nearest frequency peer: guna (+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 “gulps”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- greenstone
greenstone
36,343 corpus weight
- grice
grice
36,342 corpus weight
- grievously
grievously
36,341 corpus weight
- gulps
gulps
36,339 corpus weight
- guna
guna
36,338 corpus weight
- gunplay
gunplay
36,337 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gulps” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gulps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡʌlps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gulps” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gulps is uncommon English at frequency #63,662 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡʌlps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of gulp".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gulps, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is gulps, spelled G-U-L-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of gulp
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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