go away

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"go-away" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“go away” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A command demanding someone to leave.

Corpus desk

Index EN-go-away · go away · English

go away · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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.

Key facts for go away
PropertyValue
Headwordgo away
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechInterjection
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “go away” in English

go awayfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

go away is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A command demanding someone to leave.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for go away, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is go away, spelled G-O- -A-W-A-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    A command demanding someone to leave.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how go away appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Go away! Stop annoying me!

Synonyms

amscrayaway with yoube off with youbeat itbegonebite mebog offbug offbugger offbuzz offclear offdo onedon't let the door hit you on the way outforget youfuck offgertchaget to fuckget bentget fuckedget knottedget lostget out of hereget outta hereget out of my faceget screwedget stuffedget you gonegitgo and boil your headgo and eat cokego awaygo chase yourselfgo climb a treego fly a kitego fuck your mothergo fuck yourself sidewaysgo fuck yourselfgo jump in the lakego play in the trafficgo play with yourselfgo shit yourselfgo suck an egggo tell your mother she wants yougo to hellgo to Halifaxgo to the devilhadaway and shitehencehit the roadhop itkick rocksjog onleaveleave me alonemake like a banana and splitmake like a tree and leavemake yourself scarcenaff offnick offnow go awayoff you fuckon with youon yer bikeon your bikepiss offpound sandpush offrack offscramscrew offscrew youshooshove offshit offskedaddlesling one's hooksod offsplitspread outtake a flying fuck at a rolling donuttake a flying fucktake a hiketake a long walk on a short pierup yoursEntries in Thesaurus:leaveused as imperative verbs.Entries in :Category:English dismissals.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "go away"?
"go away" is spelled G-O- -A-W-A-Y.
What does "go away" mean?
As an interjection, "go away" means: A command demanding someone to leave.
What language does "go away" come from?
"go away" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list