g'night
/ɡəˈnaɪt/interjection
g'night is an interjection meaning “good night” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-N-I-G-H-T, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does g'night mean?
interjection
- 1
colloquialgood night
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce g'night?
- /ɡəˈnaɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-g'night.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-g'night.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is g'night?
G'night appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does g'night come from?
Contraction of good night; compare g'day, g'bye.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).