good luck
The verdict
“good luck” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bonne chance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | good luck |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌɡʊd ˈlʌk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “good luck” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for good luck is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˌɡʊd ˈlʌk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for good luck in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is good luck, spelled G-O-O-D- -L-U-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bonne chance.
- 2Ce qui porte bonheur.
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Using “good luck”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-O-O-D- -L-U-C-K — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˌɡʊd ˈlʌk\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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