great Caesar's ghost
"great-caesar-s-ghost" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“great Caesar's ghost” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An exclamation of astonishment; good Lord.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | great Caesar's ghost |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “great Caesar's ghost” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for great Caesar's ghost is 20 letters long, classified as an interjection. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An exclamation of astonishment; good Lord.".
great Caesar's ghost has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Allusion to the play The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar by William Shakespeare, in which Roman leader Julius Caesar’s ghost appears to Brutus. Used as euphemism in place of good God or similar expressions. Made popular in the 1940s and 1950s by the Superman radio… The correct English form is great Caesar's ghost, spelled G-R-E-A-T- -C-A-E-S-A-R-'-S- -G-H-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1An exclamation of astonishment; good Lord.
Etymology
Allusion to the play The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar by William Shakespeare, in which Roman leader Julius Caesar’s ghost appears to Brutus. Used as euphemism in place of good God or similar expressions. Made popular in the 1940s and 1950s by the Superman radio program and comic books as a catchphrase of the character Perry White.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “great Caesar's ghost”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-E-A-T- -C-A-E-S-A-R-'-S- -G-H-O-S-T - 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.