# wooden vs woody

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### wooden
*adjective · IPA /ˈwʊdn̩/ · frequency rank #4,133*
Made of wood.

### woody
*adjective · IPA /ˈwʊdi/ · frequency rank #9,423*
Covered in woods; wooded.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wooden-vs-woody