gunsmoke
"gunsmoke" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gunsmoke” is uncommon English (frequency #97,084 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,084
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gunsmoke · gunsmoke · English
gunsmoke · rank #97,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,084
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gulfs
Nearest frequency peer: gulfs (-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 “gunsmoke”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gridded
gridded
2,922 corpus weight
- groundsman
groundsman
2,920 corpus weight
- guarana
guarana
2,919 corpus weight
- gulfs
gulfs
2,918 corpus weight
- gunsmoke
gunsmoke
2,917 corpus weight
- Hagley
Hagley
2,915 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gunsmoke” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gunsmoke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gunsmoke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gunsmoke is uncommon English at frequency #97,084 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.".
gunsmoke doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gun + smoke. The correct English form is gunsmoke, spelled G-U-N-S-M-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gunsmoke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You can almost smell the horses, the high chapparal ^([sic]), the gunsmoke.
A cloud of gunsmoke, well over a mile distant, indicated the presence of a battery of the huge cannons. After the wind blew the cloud away, he could spot the actual guns themselves.
Etymology
From gun + smoke.
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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