good day
"good-day" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“good day” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A somewhat formal greeting generally used between sunrise and sunset.
Corpus desk
Index EN-good-day · good day · English
good day · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | good day |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “good day” in English
Rare enough to double-check
good day is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
good day doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is good day, spelled G-O-O-D- -D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A somewhat formal greeting generally used between sunrise and sunset.
- 2A dismissal; sometimes used to express annoyance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how good day appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Good day, gentlemen.
Good day, and happineſſe, deere Roſalind.
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.