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Good morning or goodmorning?

good morning is an interjection meaning “Used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning”; goodmorning is a noun meaning “Alternative form of good morning”. good morning is written as two words and goodmorning as one word; they are used differently.

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What is the difference between good morning and goodmorning?

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Part of speechinterjection, noun, verbnoun, verb
Meaning

Used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning

A parting in the morning

A greeting consisting of the interjection

Alternative form of good morning

Alternative form of good-morning

ExampleThe teacher welcomed the kids to school with "Good morning, boys and girls."none recorded
Formsgood-morning, goodmorning, good-mornings, good-morninging, good-morningedgoodmornings
Pronunciation/ˌɡʊd ˈmɔːnɪŋ/ /ˌɡʊd ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/not recorded
In writingnot counted (the list counts single words)about once in every 10 million words

Sources: good morning and goodmorning in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Every current meaning of good morning and goodmorning

good morning

  1. 1

    interjection Used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning

    The teacher welcomed the kids to school with "Good morning, boys and girls."

  2. 2

    noun A greeting consisting of the interjection

  3. 3

    verb Alternative form of good-morning (“to say good morning (to someone)”)

  4. 4

    noun Alternative form of good morning

  5. 5

    verb To say good morning (to someone)

  6. 6

    interjection A parting in the morning

    Thank you for coming everyone and I hope to see you again next year. Good morning

  7. 7

    noun An exercise performed by bending forward at the waist and then returning to a standing posture, while bearing a barbell or resistance band across the shoulders

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:good morning

  8. 8

    interjection Used to greet someone who has just awakened (irrespective of the time of day)

    Up at the crack of dusk! Good morning!

goodmorning

  1. 1

    noun Alternative form of good morning

  2. 2

    verb Alternative form of good-morning

Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.

Which is more common, good morning or goodmorning?

good morning is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; goodmorning about once in every 10 million words.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How many people search good morning vs goodmorning?

“good morning vs goodmorning” is searched about 70 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“goodmorning vs good morning”, “good morning or goodmorning”).

Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.

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