golden age
/ˈɡəʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/
"golden-age" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“golden age” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and great progress.
Corpus desk
Index EN-golden-age · golden age · English
golden age · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | golden age |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡəʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “golden age” in English
Rare enough to double-check
golden age is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡəʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for golden age, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is golden age, spelled G-O-L-D-E-N- -A-G-E.
Definition
- 1A period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and great progress.
- 2The Golden Age.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how golden age appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The first half of this century has been referred to as the golden age of medicine. To me it seems more probable that we are on the threshold of a much greater age.
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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.