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gooder

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gooder is spelled G-O-O-D-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gooder means “Something good; a good one; goodie” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gooder is gooders.

How many letters and syllables are in gooder?

Letters6: G-O-O-D-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 63,645th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is gooder?

Gooder appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce gooder?

  • Australia

Gooder has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-gooder.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of gooder

  • gooders plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does gooder mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    nonstandardslangSomething good; a good one; goodie.

    You're a gooder, for taking care of your mom.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does gooder come from?

From good + -er (occupational suffix).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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