goodnight
\ɡʊd ˈnaɪt\
The verdict
“goodnight” is uncommon French (frequency #70,682 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,682
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de good night
Corpus desk
Index FR-goodnight · goodnight · French
goodnight · rank #70,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,682
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gorgone
Nearest frequency peer: gorgone (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « goodnight »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- globule
globule
29,322 corpus weight
- goldsmith
goldsmith
29,321 corpus weight
- goodnight
goodnight
29,319 corpus weight
- gorgone
gorgone
29,318 corpus weight
- gracier
gracier
29,315 corpus weight
- Grandville
Grandville
29,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « goodnight » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goodnight |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ɡʊd ˈnaɪt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « goodnight » en français
Rare enough to double-check
goodnight is uncommon French at frequency #70,682 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ɡʊd ˈnaɪt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de good night".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for goodnight, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is goodnight, spelled G-O-O-D-N-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de good night
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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