good old days
"good-old-days" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“good old days” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A period of time in the distant past when things were better or fondly remembered.
Corpus desk
Index EN-good-old-days · good old days · English
good old days · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 old days |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “good old days” in English
Rare enough to double-check
good old days is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A period of time in the distant past when things were better or fondly remembered.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for good old days, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of good old + old days. The correct English form is good old days, spelled G-O-O-D- -O-L-D- -D-A-Y-S.
Definition
- 1A period of time in the distant past when things were better or fondly remembered.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how good old days appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the good old days we could go to the gasworks and buy coke.
Well, the good old days may not return / And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn
Etymology
Blend of good old + old days.
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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.