# good

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ɡʊd/ · frequency rank #78

## Definitions
1. Of a person or an animal:
2. Of a person or an animal:
3. Of a person or an animal:
4. Of a person or an animal:
5. Of a person or an animal:
6. Of a person or an animal:
7. Of a person or an animal:
8. Of a capability:
9. Of a capability:
10. Of a capability:
11. Of a property or quality:
12. Of a property or quality:
13. Of a property or quality:
14. Of a property or quality:
15. Of a property or quality:
16. Of a property or quality:
17. Of a property or quality:
18. Of a property or quality:
19. Of a property or quality:
20. Of a property or quality:
21. Of a property or quality:
22. Of a property or quality:
23. Very, extremely. See good and.
24. Ready.
25. Holy (especially when capitalized) .
26. Of a quantity:
27. Of a quantity:
28. Of a quantity:
29. Special, best, favorite.

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit, fit”).
Related to gather and together, but not to god/God.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English bon, bone, boon, boun (“good”) borrowed from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots gude, guid (“good”), Yola gayde, gooude, gude (“good”), North Frisian goud, gud, guid, gur, gödj, gööd (“good”), Saterland Frisian goud (“good”), West Frisian goed (“good”), Alemannic German guet (“good”), Bavarian guad (“good”), Central Franconian gut, jot, jott (“good”), Cimbrian guat, guut (“good”), Dutch goed, goei (“good”), Dutch Low Saxon good (“good”), German gut (“good”), Limburgish good, gott (“good”), Low German god, goot, got, gued (“good”), Luxembourgish gutt (“good”), Mòcheno guat (“good”), Vilamovian güt (“good”), Yiddish גוט (gut, “good”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish god (“good”), Elfdalian guoð (“good”), Faroese, Icelandic góður (“good”), Gothic 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gōþs, “good”), Vandalic *guths (“good”); also Albanian nge (“chance, leisure, opportunity, time”), Latvian gods (“honor”), Lithuanian guõdas (“nobleness, virtue; glory, honour”), Belarusian го́дны (hódny, “worthy”), Bulgarian го́ден (góden, “fit, suitable”), Czech hodný (“good, kind”), Polish godny, godzien (“dignified, worthy”), Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), Ukrainian гі́дний (hídnyj, “deserving, worthy”), го́дний (hódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”).

## Easily confused with
- **got** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-got)
- **GOP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gop)
- **Guo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-guo)
- **gow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gow)
- **gro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gro)
- **gor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gor)
- **GPO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gpo)
- **grow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-grow)
- **grid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-grid)
- **gosh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gosh)
- **gore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gore)
- **gown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gown)
- **grad** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-grad)
- **goth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-goth)
- **goon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-goon)
- **GOTO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-goto)
- **gout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gout)
- **goof** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-goof)
- **gory** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-gory)
- **goss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/good-vs-goss)

## Common misspellings (4)
`ggood`, `godo`, `goodd`, `ogod`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/good