go to bed
"go-to-bed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“go to bed” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To lie down to sleep, put oneself in one's bed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-go-to-bed · go to bed · English
go to bed · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | go to bed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “go to bed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
go to bed is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for go to bed, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Already attested in Old English as tō bedde gān. The correct English form is go to bed, spelled G-O- -T-O- -B-E-D.
Definition
- 1To lie down to sleep, put oneself in one's bed.
- 2To have sex; to go to have sex.
- 3Of a newspaper: to finish being prepared for printing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how go to bed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I go to sleep at the same hour every night, no matter when I go to bed.
I think I'll just go to bed, it's bedtime for me.
Etymology
Already attested in Old English as tō bedde gān.
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.