goody-goody
"goody-goody" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goody-goody” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A well-behaved person with no obvious human failings, with the possible exception of smugness and self-satisfaction.
Corpus desk
Index EN-goody-goody · goody-goody · English
goody-goody · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | goody-goody |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “goody-goody” in English
Rare enough to double-check
goody-goody is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A well-behaved person with no obvious human failings, with the possible exception of smugness and self-satisfaction.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for goody-goody, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is goody-goody, spelled G-O-O-D-Y---G-O-O-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A well-behaved person with no obvious human failings, with the possible exception of smugness and self-satisfaction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how goody-goody appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I hate being such a goody-goody sometimes.
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.