laughing gear

noun

"laughing-gear" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“laughing gear” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The mouth.

Corpus desk

Index EN-laughing-gear · laughing gear · English

laughing gear · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "L" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for laughing gear
PropertyValue
Headwordlaughing gear
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “laughing gear” in English

laughing gearranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

laughing gear is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The mouth.".

No misspelling variants are generated for laughing gear in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is laughing gear, spelled L-A-U-G-H-I-N-G- -G-E-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    The mouth.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how laughing gear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 2005, Brian Castro, The Garden Book, Giramond Publishing, NSW, page 110, His dumb face made me believe him. I told him if he saw anything unusual to come and tell me. Sure, Mr Damon, he whimpered. Sure, Mr Damon...I could have knocked out his laughing-gear.
  2. Wrap your laughing gear around these luscious Lebanese swamis (meat and spice wrapped in Lebanese bread).

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "laughing gear"?
"laughing gear" is spelled L-A-U-G-H-I-N-G- -G-E-A-R.
What does "laughing gear" mean?
As a noun, "laughing gear" means: The mouth.
What language does "laughing gear" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list