guro
"guro" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guro” is uncommon English (frequency #94,919 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,919
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guro · guro · English
guro · rank #94,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,919
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH guiltless
Nearest frequency peer: guiltless (-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 “guro”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- guesstimate
guesstimate
5,086 corpus weight
- guiltless
guiltless
5,083 corpus weight
- guro
guro
5,082 corpus weight
- gymkhana
gymkhana
5,080 corpus weight
- haloperidol
haloperidol
5,077 corpus weight
- Halsall
Halsall
5,076 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “guro” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guro |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guro” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guro is uncommon English at frequency #94,919 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.".
guro has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reborrowed from Japanese グロ (guro), from English grotesque. The correct English form is guro, spelled G-U-R-O.
Definition
- 1A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And maybe the Moravecian dream would be especially exciting for fans of guro manga who want to live out all the fantasies to have sex like the immortal Mai in Waita Uziga's Mai-chan's Daily Life, who stay alive even after being violently mutilated […]
The scope of hentai encompasses the entire range of sexual fetishes, including […] Guro, focusing on imaginative gore and mutilation.
Etymology
Reborrowed from Japanese グロ (guro), from English grotesque.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).