goulash
/ˈɡuː.læʃ/
"goulash" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goulash” is uncommon English (frequency #75,921 among 18,276 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,921
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goulash |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡuː.læʃ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “goulash” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
goulash is uncommon English at frequency #75,921 among 18,276 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡuː.læʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
goulash has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French goulasch, itself from Hungarian gulyás (“herdsman”), an ellipsis of gulyáshús (“herdsman meat”), gulyásétel (“herdsman food”), and/or gulyástokány (“herdsman stew”). First attested in English 1866. The correct English form is goulash, spelled G-O-U-L-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
- 2Synonym of American chop suey.
- 3A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.
- 4A hodgepodge, mishmash
Etymology
From French goulasch, itself from Hungarian gulyás (“herdsman”), an ellipsis of gulyáshús (“herdsman meat”), gulyásétel (“herdsman food”), and/or gulyástokány (“herdsman stew”). First attested in English 1866.
This word in other languages
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 “goulash”
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- The one correct English spelling is G-O-U-L-A-S-H - 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.