goodbye
\ɡʊd.ˈbaɪ\
The verdict
“goodbye” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,472
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au revoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-goodbye · goodbye · French
goodbye · rank #43,472 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,472
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gloucester
Nearest frequency peer: Gloucester (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « goodbye »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- glaucome
glaucome
56,532 corpus weight
- glissait
glissait
56,531 corpus weight
- Gloucester
Gloucester
56,530 corpus weight
- goodbye
goodbye
56,529 corpus weight
- gourmets
gourmets
56,528 corpus weight
- gouttières
gouttières
56,527 corpus weight
What this shows « goodbye » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goodbye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ɡʊd.ˈbaɪ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « goodbye »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around goodbye (IPA \ɡʊd.ˈbaɪ\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #43,472 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Au revoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for goodbye, with forms such as "ggoodbye", "godbye", and "godobye". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is goodbye, spelled G-O-O-D-B-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Au revoir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggoodbye
- godbye
- godobye
- goobdye
- goodbbye
- goodbey
- goodbyye
- gooddbye
- goodybe
- ogodbye
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of goodbye - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "goodbye", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).