good
\ɡʊd\
The verdict
“good” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,871) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,871
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-good · good · French
good · rank #5,871 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,871
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH fun
Nearest frequency peer: fun (-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 « good »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- flammes
flammes
94,133 corpus weight
- foire
foire
94,132 corpus weight
- fun
fun
94,131 corpus weight
- good
good
94,130 corpus weight
- honnêtement
honnêtement
94,129 corpus weight
- horaire
horaire
94,128 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « good » 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 | good |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʊd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « good »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for good is neighbouring look-alikes ("got", "gros", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ɡʊd\. Frequency #5,871 among 2,617 “G” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for good, with forms such as "ggood", "godo", and "goodd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "got", "gros", "goût", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is good, spelled G-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1Bon.
- 2Sage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggood
- godo
- goodd
- ogod
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of good - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "good", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).