stick to one's guns
"stick-to-one-s-guns" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stick to one's guns” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To persist in faithfully attending to cannons while under fire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stick to one's guns |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stick to one's guns” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for stick to one's guns is 19 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.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stick to one's guns, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 stick to one's guns, spelled S-T-I-C-K- -T-O- -O-N-E-'-S- -G-U-N-S.
Definition
- 1To persist in faithfully attending to cannons while under fire.
- 2To maintain one’s position or viewpoint when faced with opposition.
This word in other languages
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 “stick to one's guns”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-I-C-K- -T-O- -O-N-E-'-S- -G-U-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.