shut one's gob
"shut-one-s-gob" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shut one's gob” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To stop talking; to be quiet.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shut-one-s-gob · shut one's gob · English
shut one's gob · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shut one's gob |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shut one's gob” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shut one's gob is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To stop talking; to be quiet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for shut one's gob, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is shut one's gob, spelled S-H-U-T- -O-N-E-'-S- -G-O-B.
Definition
- 1To stop talking; to be quiet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shut one's gob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Why don't you just shut your gob? I'm tired of listening to you.
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.