good evening
"good-evening" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“good evening” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Used as a greeting in the evening.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | good evening |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “good evening” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for good evening is 12 letters long, classified as an interjection. 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: "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.
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.
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Using “good evening”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-O-O-D- -E-V-E-N-I-N-G - 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.