good
[ɡʊd]
The verdict
“good” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,798) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,798
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gut
Corpus desk
Index DE-good · good · German
good · rank #4,798 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,798
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gleicher
Nearest frequency peer: gleicher (-1 rank slots)
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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „good“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- geschossen
geschossen
95,206 corpus weight
- gewachsen
gewachsen
95,205 corpus weight
- gleicher
gleicher
95,204 corpus weight
- good
good
95,203 corpus weight
- Hauptbahnhof
Hauptbahnhof
95,201 corpus weight
- Interpretat…
Interpretation
95,200 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „good“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | good |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɡʊd] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „good“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for good is neighbouring look-alikes ("Gott", "Grad", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ɡʊd]. Frequency #4,798 among 5,117 “G” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for good, with forms such as "ggood", "godo", and "goodd". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Gott", "Grad", "grob", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is good, spelled G-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1gut
- 2(Kinder) brav
- 3gültig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how good appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It's pretty good.
Be a good girl.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggood
- godo
- goodd
- ogod
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of good - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "good", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).