goo
\ɡuː\
The verdict
“goo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,194) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,194
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance liquide ou semi-liquide ; en particulier, liquide plus ou moins visqueux, poisseux ou glissant, ou bien fluide corporel. Jaja.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goo · goo · French
goo · rank #46,194 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,194
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gonzesses
Nearest frequency peer: gonzesses (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « goo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- glycérine
glycérine
53,810 corpus weight
- Goffin
Goffin
53,809 corpus weight
- gonzesses
gonzesses
53,808 corpus weight
- goo
goo
53,807 corpus weight
- graf
graf
53,805 corpus weight
- Greek
Greek
53,804 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « goo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡuː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « goo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for goo is neighbouring look-alikes ("GR", "GT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɡuː\. Frequency #46,194 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Substance liquide ou semi-liquide ; en particulier, liquide plus ou moins visqueux, poisseux ou glissant, ou bien fluide corporel. Jaja.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for goo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GR", "GT", "GP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is goo, spelled G-O-O.
Definition
- 1Substance liquide ou semi-liquide ; en particulier, liquide plus ou moins visqueux, poisseux ou glissant, ou bien fluide corporel. Jaja.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how goo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mystery goo in Alaska now called fungal spores — La jaja mystérieuse d’Alaska rebaptisée spores fongiques.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).