oh my goodness gracious
"oh-my-goodness-gracious" is a 20-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oh my goodness gracious” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oh my God.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oh-my-goodness-gracious · oh my goodness gracious · English
oh my goodness gracious · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 gracious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “oh my goodness gracious” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oh my goodness gracious is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Oh my God.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oh my goodness gracious in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is oh my goodness gracious, spelled O-H- -M-Y- -G-O-O-D-N-E-S-S- -G-R-A-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Oh my God.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oh my goodness gracious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Oh, my goodness gracious! who'd have thought it? Oh, my soul and body!" exclaimed Ben, dropping the cover, and jumping up with a perfectly absurd look of ...
Oh, my goodness gracious me! where was I? Where was Robert? To happen to me, a sort of prudish old maid, who kept her house so strict!
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.