good gracious
"good-gracious" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“good gracious” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Oh my God; expression of surprise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | good gracious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “good gracious” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for good gracious is 13 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: "Oh my God; expression of surprise.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for good gracious, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is good gracious, spelled G-O-O-D- -G-R-A-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Oh my God; expression of surprise.
Synonyms
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 gracious”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-O-O-D- -G-R-A-C-I-O-U-S - 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.