gose
/ɡoʊzə/
"gose" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gose” is uncommon English (frequency #82,345 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,345
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A beer brewed since the 16th century, in Goslar and later Leipzig, with malted wheat, salt, and coriander.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gose · gose · English
gose · rank #82,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,345
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gowanus
Nearest frequency peer: Gowanus (+2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “gose”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- goby
goby
17,662 corpus weight
- Godden
Godden
17,661 corpus weight
- Gohmert
Gohmert
17,660 corpus weight
- gose
gose
17,656 corpus weight
- Gowanus
Gowanus
17,654 corpus weight
- Graber
Graber
17,653 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gose” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “gose” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gose is uncommon English at frequency #82,345 among 2,313 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I would happily drink beer with a Chicago-style dog. Pilsener, Kölsch or gose would be my choices, but your own favorite style will also make a great combination.
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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