goldfish
/ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/
"goldfish" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goldfish” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,126. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,126
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goldfish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “goldfish” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around goldfish (IPA /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,126 among 18,276 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for goldfish, with forms such as "ggoldfish", "glodfish", and "godlfish". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gold + fish. The correct English form is goldfish, spelled G-O-L-D-F-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.
- 2A person with an unreliable memory.
- 3Nonstandard form of Goldfish (“a small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish”).
Etymology
From gold + fish.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggoldfish
- glodfish
- godlfish
- golddfish
- goldffish
- goldfihs
- goldfishh
- goldfissh
- goldfsih
- goldifsh
- golfdish
- golldfish
- ogldfish
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of goldfish - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “goldfish”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-O-L-D-F-I-S-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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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.