good

//gʊd// adj

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,562

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

good is anPortugueseadj. It means: bom Pronounced /gʊd/. It ranks #4,562 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with gota and grow.

Key facts for good
PropertyValue
Headwordgood
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/gʊd/
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,562
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of good in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for good is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /gʊd/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,562 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "bom".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for good, with forms such as "ggood", "godo", and "goodd". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "gota", "grow", "gordo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Portuguese form is good, spelled G-O-O-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    bom

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggood,godo,goodd,ogod

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for good

Misspelling Variants of "good"

ggood5godo4goodd5ogod4
Misspelling Variants of "good"

Frequency rank: #4,562 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "good"?
"good" is spelled G-O-O-D. The IPA pronunciation is /gʊd/.
What does "good" mean?
As an adj, "good" means: bom
What words are commonly confused with "good"?
"good" is commonly confused with "gota", "grow", "gordo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "good"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "good" is /gʊd/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "good" come from?
"good" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.