gumiho
noun
gumiho is a noun meaning “An usually malevolent, shape-shifting fox spirit, typically said to take the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men and eat their livers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-U-M-I-H-O, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gumiho is gumihos.
What does gumiho mean?
noun
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An usually malevolent, shape-shifting fox spirit, typically said to take the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men and eat their livers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gumiho
- gumihos plural
- kumiho
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gumiho?
Gumiho appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does gumiho come from?
Borrowed from Korean 구미호 (gumiho, “nine-tailed fox”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).