guzzling
"guzzling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guzzling” is uncommon English (frequency #53,585 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,585
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - greedy eating or drinking
Corpus desk
Index EN-guzzling · guzzling · English
guzzling · rank #53,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,585
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Guyanese
Nearest frequency peer: Guyanese (-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 “guzzling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- guppy
guppy
46,418 corpus weight
- Guyanese
Guyanese
46,417 corpus weight
- guzzling
guzzling
46,416 corpus weight
- gynaecology
gynaecology
46,415 corpus weight
- Hadfield
Hadfield
46,413 corpus weight
- Hammett
Hammett
46,412 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “guzzling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guzzling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “guzzling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
guzzling is uncommon English at frequency #53,585 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "greedy eating or drinking".
guzzling has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is guzzling, spelled G-U-Z-Z-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1greedy eating or drinking
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how guzzling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] there ain't a housekeeper, no nor a lodger in our street, don't know that I lost money by that man, and by his guzzlings […]
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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