goto
/ˈɡoʊ.tu/noun
goto is spelled G-O-T-O: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, goto means “Alternative letter-case form of GOTO” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of goto is gotos.
How many letters and syllables are in goto?
| Letters | 4: G-O-T-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,420th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is goto?
Goto appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th 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 goto?
- UK /ˈɡəʊ.tuː/
- US /ˈɡoʊ.tu/
Goto 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).
Words people confuse with goto
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: go-to (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with goto?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as goto from its last stressed vowel (/oʊtu/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: togo.
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 goto
- gotos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does goto mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of GOTO.
Overall, experience in the two decades that followed the publication of Dijkstra's letter showed the folly of producing goto-laden code.
noun
- 1
Any construct which produces an unstructured jump in the flow of execution.
The setjmp/longjmp facility in C is essentially a GOTO.
verb
- 1
To reach (a point in a program) by means of a GOTO instruction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Goto in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | GOTO, GOTO-Anweisung, GOTO-Befehl |
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 goto come from?
From go to, a keyword for this purpose in many programming languages.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).