gose
/ɡoʊzə/
"gose" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gose” is uncommon English (frequency #82,345 among 18,276 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,345
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A beer brewed since the 16th century, in Goslar and later Leipzig, with malted wheat, salt, and coriander.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gose |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡoʊzə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gose” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
gose is uncommon English at frequency #82,345 among 18,276 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡoʊzə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A beer brewed since the 16th century, in Goslar and later Leipzig, with malted wheat, salt, and coriander.".
gose has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Gose, the name of the beer, from the name of the river Gose which flows through Goslar and from which its brewers took water to make it. The correct English form is gose, spelled G-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1A beer brewed since the 16th century, in Goslar and later Leipzig, with malted wheat, salt, and coriander.
Etymology
From German Gose, the name of the beer, from the name of the river Gose which flows through Goslar and from which its brewers took water to make it.
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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Using “gose”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-O-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.