good evening
"good-evening" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“good evening” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Used as a greeting in the evening.
Corpus desk
Index EN-good-evening · good evening · English
good evening · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 evening |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “good evening” in English
Rare enough to double-check
good evening is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Used as a greeting in the evening.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for good evening, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: An ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good evening.". The correct English form is good evening, spelled G-O-O-D- -E-V-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Used as a greeting in the evening.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how good evening appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Good evening everyone and welcome to our 34th annual general meeting.
Etymology
An ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good evening.".
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.