oh my goodness
/əʊ maɪ ˈɡʊdnɛs/
"oh-my-goodness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oh my goodness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of my goodness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oh-my-goodness · oh my goodness · English
oh my goodness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oh my goodness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /əʊ maɪ ˈɡʊdnɛs/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “oh my goodness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oh my goodness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /əʊ maɪ ˈɡʊdnɛs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of my goodness.".
oh my goodness doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is oh my goodness, spelled O-H- -M-Y- -G-O-O-D-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of my goodness.
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.