spill one's guts
"spill-one-s-guts" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spill one's guts” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spill one's guts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spill one's guts” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for spill one's guts is 16 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for spill one's guts in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is spill one's guts, spelled S-P-I-L-L- -O-N-E-'-S- -G-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1To confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive.
- 2To vomit.
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.
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Using “spill one's guts”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-P-I-L-L- -O-N-E-'-S- -G-U-T-S - 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.