guts
/ɡʌts/noun, verb
guts is spelled G-U-T-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, guts means “The entrails or contents of the abdomen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in guts?
| Letters | 4: G-U-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is guts?
Guts appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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).
How do you pronounce guts?
- /ɡʌts/
- /ɡʊts/
Guts has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-guts.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with guts?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as guts.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: gust.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of guts
- gutses present, singular, he/she/it
- gutsing participle, present
- gutsed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does guts mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
- 2
informalCourage; determination.
It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.
- 3
informalContent, substance.
His speech had no guts in it.
- 4
informalThe essential, core parts.
He knew all about the guts of the business: how things actually get done.
- 5
informalOne's innermost feelings.
If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.
- 6
AustraliaThe ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
- 7
informalThe center of the field.
- 8
plural of gut
verb
- 1
AustraliainformalTo eat greedily.
- 2
informalTo show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
- 3
third-person singular simple present indicative of gut
noun
- 1
plural of GUT
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Guts in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | entrailles, tripes , cran, guts |
| German | Eingeweide , Mumm, Eier |
| Portuguese | tripas, vísceras, entranhas , fígado, estômago |
| Spanish | tripas, tripa, mondongo , agallas |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.