good luck
/ˌɡʊd ˈlʌk/
"good-luck" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“good luck” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Desirable or beneficial fortune.
Corpus desk
Index EN-good-luck · good luck · English
good luck · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 luck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɡʊd ˈlʌk/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “good luck” in English
Rare enough to double-check
good luck is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌɡʊd ˈlʌk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Desirable or beneficial fortune.".
Zero misspellings are on record for good luck in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is good luck, spelled G-O-O-D- -L-U-C-K.
Definition
- 1Desirable or beneficial fortune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how good luck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
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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.