let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for let the door hit you where the good Lord split you is 50 letters long, classified as a phrase. 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: "Synonym of don't let the door hit you on the way out.".

No misspelling variants are generated for let the door hit you where the good Lord split you in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: Described as early as 1977 as Black American slang constituting a "nasty command to leave, euphemism of 'split you' avoiding profanity." The phrase "where the good Lord split you" describes the gluteal cleft. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is let the door hit you where the good Lord split you, spelled L-E-T- -T-H-E- -D-O-O-R- -H-I-T- -Y-O-U- -W-H-E-R-E- -T-H-E- -G-O-O-D- -L-O-R-D- -S-P-L-I-T- -Y-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.