spill one's guts
"spill-one-s-guts" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spill one's guts” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To confess, or to divulge secrets, typically speaking freely and at length after a change of motive or an incentive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spill-one-s-guts · spill one's guts · English
spill one's guts · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 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 | spill one's guts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spill one's guts” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spill one's guts is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spill one's guts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At first, the suspect would not tell us anything about the other participants in the crime. But after being offered a deal, he spilled his guts.
He suddenly wanted to vomit, to spill his guts right here on Lake Street in front of the thousands watching.
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.