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goth

/ɡɑθ/noun, adjective

goth is spelled G-O-T-H: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, goth means “A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of goth is goths.

How many letters and syllables are in goth?

Letters4: G-O-T-H
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is goth?

Goth appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 goth?

  • UK /ɡɒθ/
  • US /ɡɑθ/

Goth has one syllable (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-ca-goth.oga, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Goth.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with goth?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as goth from its last stressed vowel (/ɑθ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of goth

  • goths plural
  • gother comparative
  • gothest superlative

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

What does goth mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes.

    Philip has been into goth for many years, haven't you dear?

  2. 2

    A style of punk rock influenced by glam rock; gothic rock.

  3. 3

    A person who is part of the goth subculture.

    And how come you never see goths driving cars? We drive cars... We're just like you really, except that we listen to Cradle of Filth.

  4. 4

    UKslangA member of an alternative subculture based around rock music.

  5. 5

    rareRare form of Goth. (a form of Goth)

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to goth music or people.

    With her black clothes and dyed hair, Melanie looked very goth compared to her classmates.

noun

as Goth
  1. 1

    A member of the East Germanic people known for their invasion of the western Roman Empire and subsequent founding of successor states in Italy and Spain during Late Antiquity.

  2. 2

    An uncivilized person, a barbarian, a vandal.

  3. 3

    Alternative form of goth (“member of gothic subculture; or the subculture itself”).

adjective

as Goth
  1. 1

    Alternative form of goth.

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

Goth in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchgothique (punk-derived subculture of people who…), Goth, Gothe (member of the East Germanic people)
Spanishgótico (punk-derived subculture of people who…), godo (member of the East Germanic people)
GermanGote, Gotin (member of the East Germanic people), Grufti, Schwarzer, Goth (person who is part of the goth subculture)
Portuguesegodo (member of the East Germanic people), gótico, gótica (person who is part of the goth subculture)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does goth come from?

From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).

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

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