golde
"golde" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“golde” is uncommon English (frequency #93,749 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,749
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic spelling of gold.
Corpus desk
Index EN-golde · golde · English
golde · rank #93,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,749
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH godman
Nearest frequency peer: godman (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “golde”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- GLONASS
GLONASS
6,257 corpus weight
- glowering
glowering
6,255 corpus weight
- Goda
Goda
6,254 corpus weight
- godman
godman
6,253 corpus weight
- golde
golde
6,252 corpus weight
- gorn
gorn
6,250 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “golde” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | golde |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “golde” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
golde is uncommon English at frequency #93,749 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archaic spelling of gold.".
No misspelling variants are generated for golde in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is golde, spelled G-O-L-D-E.
Definition
- 1Archaic spelling of gold.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how golde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Among all other was wrytten in her trone / In golde letters, this worde, whiche I dyde rede: / Garder le fortune que est mauelz et bone.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.