gundy
"gundy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gundy” is uncommon English (frequency #54,217 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,217
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A front claw of a crab.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gundy · gundy · English
gundy · rank #54,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,217
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gwangju
Nearest frequency peer: Gwangju (+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 “gundy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grubs
grubs
45,789 corpus weight
- gundy
gundy
45,784 corpus weight
- Gwangju
Gwangju
45,783 corpus weight
- Haag
Haag
45,782 corpus weight
- haka
haka
45,781 corpus weight
- Halford
Halford
45,780 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gundy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gundy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gundy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gundy is uncommon English at frequency #54,217 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A front claw of a crab.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gundy in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is gundy, spelled G-U-N-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A front claw of a crab.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gundy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They said that crabs folded their gundies inwards when the crabs were in their holes and were therefore unable to bite anyone from that position.
The experience of eating crab meat out of a gundy, if you film a session on that it's a big thing for experiential tourism.
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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