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good bye

interjection

good bye is an interjection meaning “Alternative form of goodbye” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-O-D-B-Y-E.

What does good bye mean?

interjection

  1. 1

    Alternative form of goodbye.

interjection

as good-bye
  1. 1

    Alternative form of goodbye.

noun

as good-bye
  1. 1

    Alternative form of goodbye.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce good bye?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-good-bye.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with good bye

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

good-bye vs goodbye10 B

Also written: goodbye (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).