goods
[ɡʊdz]
The verdict
“goods” is an uncommon German word, ranked #58,830 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,830
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs good
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goods |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡʊdz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “goods” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for goods is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡʊdz]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,830 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plural des Substantivs good".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for goods, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is goods, spelled G-O-O-D-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs good
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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Using “goods”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is G-O-O-D-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡʊdz] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German 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.