good afternoon
"good-afternoon" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“good afternoon” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A greeting or farewell said in the afternoon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | good afternoon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “good afternoon” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for good afternoon is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A greeting or farewell said in the afternoon.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for good afternoon, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Probably a shortening of "I wish you a good afternoon." The correct English form is good afternoon, spelled G-O-O-D- -A-F-T-E-R-N-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1A greeting or farewell said in the afternoon.
Etymology
Probably a shortening of "I wish you a good afternoon."
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.
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Using “good afternoon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-O-O-D- -A-F-T-E-R-N-O-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.