goddaughter
/ˈɡɑdˌdɔ.tɚ/
"goddaughter" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goddaughter” is uncommon English (frequency #74,999 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,999
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-goddaughter · goddaughter · English
goddaughter · rank #74,999 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,999
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH glycolic
Nearest frequency peer: glycolic (-2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “goddaughter”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- glomerular
glomerular
25,005 corpus weight
- glycolic
glycolic
25,004 corpus weight
- goddaughter
goddaughter
25,002 corpus weight
- goldfield
goldfield
25,000 corpus weight
- Gorski
Gorski
24,999 corpus weight
- Gosnell
Gosnell
24,998 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “goddaughter” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goddaughter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɑdˌdɔ.tɚ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “goddaughter” in English
Rare enough to double-check
goddaughter is uncommon English at frequency #74,999 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡɑdˌdɔ.tɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for goddaughter in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English goddoghter, goddoȝter, from Old English goddohtor (“goddaughter”), equivalent to god- + daughter. Cognate with Danish guddatter (“goddaughter”), Swedish guddotter (“goddaughter”), Icelandic guðdóttir (“goddaughter”). The correct English form is goddaughter, spelled G-O-D-D-A-U-G-H-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A female child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent.
Etymology
From Middle English goddoghter, goddoȝter, from Old English goddohtor (“goddaughter”), equivalent to god- + daughter. Cognate with Danish guddatter (“goddaughter”), Swedish guddotter (“goddaughter”), Icelandic guðdóttir (“goddaughter”).
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).