guzzle
/ˈɡʌzəl/
"guzzle" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guzzle” is an uncommon English word, ranked #78,654 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #78,654
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guzzle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɡʌzəl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “guzzle” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for guzzle is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡʌzəl/. Corpus data places it at rank #78,654 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for guzzle in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). The correct English form is guzzle, spelled G-U-Z-Z-L-E.
Definition
- 1To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
- 2To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
- 3To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
- 4To flow copiously; to spray out.
Etymology
Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”).
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); 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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Using “guzzle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-U-Z-Z-L-E - 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.