fod
/fɒd/
"fod" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fod” is uncommon English (frequency #78,604 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,604
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forehead, particularly a large one
Corpus desk
Index EN-fod · fod · English
fod · rank #78,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,604
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH folktale
Nearest frequency peer: folktale (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “fod”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fictive
fictive
21,403 corpus weight
- fod
fod
21,397 corpus weight
- folktale
folktale
21,396 corpus weight
- fone
fone
21,393 corpus weight
- Fordyce
Fordyce
21,392 corpus weight
- foreseeing
foreseeing
21,391 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fod” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fod |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɒd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #78,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fod” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fod is uncommon English at frequency #78,604 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fɒd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "forehead, particularly a large one".
fod has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a shortening of forehead, folk etymology an acronym for "forehead of doom". The correct English form is fod, spelled F-O-D.
Definition
- 1forehead, particularly a large one
Etymology
From a shortening of forehead, folk etymology an acronym for "forehead of doom".
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).