stuffed to the gills
"stuffed-to-the-gills" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stuffed to the gills” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Completely full.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stuffed-to-the-gills · stuffed to the gills · English
stuffed to the gills · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | stuffed to the gills |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stuffed to the gills” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stuffed to the gills is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Completely full.".
Zero misspellings are on record for stuffed to the gills in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is stuffed to the gills, spelled S-T-U-F-F-E-D- -T-O- -T-H-E- -G-I-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Completely full.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stuffed to the gills appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: stuffed; packed to the gills; see also Thesaurus:empty § Antonyms
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.