goode
"goode" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goode” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,067. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,067
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of good.
Corpus desk
Index EN-goode · goode · English
goode · rank #30,067 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,067
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH goff
Nearest frequency peer: goff (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “goode”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- gifting
gifting
69,938 corpus weight
- gleam
gleam
69,936 corpus weight
- goff
goff
69,935 corpus weight
- goode
goode
69,934 corpus weight
- goss
goss
69,932 corpus weight
- Gower
Gower
69,931 corpus weight
What this shows “goode” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goode |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “goode”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around goode, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,067 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Obsolete spelling of good.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for goode, with forms such as "ggoode", "gode", and "godoe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gore", "goon", "goof", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is goode, spelled G-O-O-D-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of good.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how goode appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hee communeth moche wythe mee as to ye difficoltye of fyndinge priestes to do the mynistrie , and forasmoche as I came into theese parttes onlie ye whiles my verye goode friende Father Cornelius colde arrange matters wyth hys superiors beyonde seas, I am nothing lothes to betake me, at hys returne, to do ye beheste of Maister Tregiaun, who willeth that I…
And this succour, such as it was , was so longe sewid for, and delayed er it cowde be obteynidde, that all occasions to do eny goode yn that mater wer well nere loste therby.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggoode
- gode
- godoe
- goodde
- gooed
- ogode
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of goode - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).