go down

verb

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

The verdict

“go down” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. 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) - To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.

Corpus desk

Index EN-go-down · go down · English

go down · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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

Where “go down” sits in English frequency

go downranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

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

Rare enough to double-check

go down is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 17 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for go down, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is go down, spelled G-O- -D-O-W-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
  2. 2
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
  3. 3
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
  4. 4
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
  5. 5
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
  6. 6
    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
  7. 7
    To be received or accepted.
  8. 8
    To be received or accepted.
  9. 9
    To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
  10. 10
    To be recorded or remembered (as).
  11. 11
    To take place, happen.
  12. 12
    To attack another gang.
  13. 13
    To perform oral sex.
  14. 14
    To stop functioning, to go offline.
  15. 15
    To be soundly defeated.
  16. 16
    To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term).
  17. 17
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. go down to the grave
  2. It'll be cooler once the sun goes down.

This word in other languages

pasar(Español)descendre(Français)absteigen(Deutsch)descer(Português)

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 down"?
"go down" is spelled G-O- -D-O-W-N.
What does "go down" mean?
As a verb, "go down" means: To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
What language does "go down" come from?
"go down" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list