guyot
/ˈɡiː.əʊ/
"guyot" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guyot” is uncommon English (frequency #89,424 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,424
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A flat-topped seamount.
Corpus desk
Index EN-guyot · guyot · English
guyot · rank #89,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,424
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH halberd
Nearest frequency peer: halberd (+4 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 “guyot”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Grahamstown
Grahamstown
10,587 corpus weight
- grandiosity
grandiosity
10,586 corpus weight
- gren
gren
10,584 corpus weight
- griefs
griefs
10,582 corpus weight
- guyot
guyot
10,577 corpus weight
- halberd
halberd
10,573 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “guyot” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guyot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡiː.əʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guyot” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guyot is uncommon English at frequency #89,424 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡiː.əʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A flat-topped seamount.".
guyot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot. The correct English form is guyot, spelled G-U-Y-O-T.
Definition
- 1A flat-topped seamount.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guyot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.
Etymology
Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.
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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