gut feeling
"gut-feeling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gut feeling” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gut feeling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gut feeling” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gut feeling is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for gut feeling in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 gut feeling, spelled G-U-T- -F-E-E-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “gut feeling”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-U-T- -F-E-E-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.