goyim
/ˈɡɔɪ.ɪm/
"goyim" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goyim” is uncommon English (frequency #87,335 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,335
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of goy
Corpus desk
Index EN-goyim · goyim · English
goyim · rank #87,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,335
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Grigson
Nearest frequency peer: Grigson (+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 “goyim”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- GMD
GMD
12,674 corpus weight
- gobbler
gobbler
12,672 corpus weight
- Godoy
Godoy
12,671 corpus weight
- goyim
goyim
12,666 corpus weight
- Grigson
Grigson
12,664 corpus weight
- grosz
grosz
12,662 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “goyim” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goyim |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɔɪ.ɪm/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “goyim” in English
Rare enough to double-check
goyim is uncommon English at frequency #87,335 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡɔɪ.ɪm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of goy".
No generated misspelling entries exist for goyim in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is goyim, spelled G-O-Y-I-M.
Definition
- 1plural of goy
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how goyim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Many goyim are confused by the large number of Yiddish terms beginning with ‘schl’ or ‘schm’ (schlemiel, schlemazzle, schmeggegge, schlub, schlock, schlep, schmutz, schnook), and use them incorrectly or interchangeably,” he wrote.
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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