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Definition: Gutsy |
GutsyAdjective1. Marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist; "a gutsy red wine". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: gutless (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Jesus! You are one gutsy virgin! (Secret Admirer; writing credit: David Greenwalt; Jim Kouf) | |
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| "Gutsy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Gutsy" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.06% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gutsy travel woman | 8 |
gourmet gutsy | 6 |
gutsy woman | 3 |
gutsy | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gutsy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جسور (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, stout hearted), جرىء (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, defiant, fearless, forward, hardy, intrepid, lion-hearted, plucky, stout, stout hearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | страстен (amorous, eager, enthusiastic, fervent, fierce, impassioned, keen, libidinous, lustful, passional, passionate, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, violent), смел (adventurous, ambitious, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dashing, gallant, game, gamy, gritty, high-hearted, high-spirited, manful, manly, martial, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, provocative, slashing, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, thoroughbred, valiant, venturesome), развихрен (mad), лаком (avid, esurient, gourmand, grasping, greedy, hoggish, lickerish, openmouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | topakka (domineering, resolute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | glouton (guzzler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gefräßig (gluttonous, gluttonously, greedy, piggish, ravening, ravenous, ravenously, voracious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gagah (bold, brawny, dashing, gallant, handsome, muscular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vorace (greedy, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utsygay tragon (greedy, ravenous, voracious). (various references) กล้าหาญ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) gözüpek (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, courageous, dare devil, daring, fearless, gamy, Hardy, intrepid, nothing if not courageous, stalwart, undaunted, venturesome, Venturous), pervasız (bluff, careless, daft, daring, devil may care, fearless, fond, harum scarum, reckless), cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, bulldog, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, Dauntless, Doughty, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gallant, game, gamy, great-hearted, gritty, Hardy, heroic, intrepid, martial, plucky, redoubtable, resolute, spartan, spirited, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous), atak (attack, confident, dapper, daring, dashing, heady, mettled, mettlesome, militant, push, pushful, pushing, rash, reckless, spunky, Venturous). (various references) gaяratlanmak (buck up, get gutsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Gutsy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dutosky, Gatesy, Gestyl, getty, gety, ghuts, Gitsie, gosti, gotay, gothy, gotsa, Gotse, goty, gusky, gusy, gutky, Gutsa, gutsey, gutty, guttzy, guty, Gutz, gutzy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gutsy" (pronounced gu"tsē") |
| 3 | -t s ē" | sightsee. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gusty. | |
| Words within the letters "g-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: gust, guts, guys, tugs. | |
-2 letters: gut, guy, sty, tug, uts. | |
-3 letters: us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-s-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: guyots. | |
+2 letters: gustily, gutsily, yogurts. | |
+3 letters: augustly, grayouts, gulosity, rugosity, studying, yoghurts, youngest. | |
+4 letters: autogyros, curtsying, gustatory, nystagmus, strangury, unsightly, yoghourts, youngster. | |
+5 letters: autolysing, autopsying, bustlingly, curtseying, gesturally, ghastfully, justifying, mystagogue, outstaying, pterygiums, restudying, sanguinity, stunningly, stupefying, trustingly, youngsters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 75 74 73 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. ..- - ... -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110101 01110100 01110011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G u t s y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0075 0074 0073 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4187868591 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, arabo, árabe, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulgarialainen, bulgare, bulgaro, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, finlandese, finlandés, finés, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, ranskalainen, français, französisch, francese, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, tedesco, alemán, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman |
Indonesian | الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, индонезийски език, индонезийски, indonesialainen, indonésien, Indonesier, indonesiano, indonesio, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya | |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italialainen, italien, italienisch, italiano, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, tailandese, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, turco, türkçe, türk |
Turkmen | Тюркменски Език, turkmenistanilainen, Turkmène, Turkmenin, Turkmene, turkmeno, turcomano | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, inglese, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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