odal
noun, adjective
odal is spelled O-D-A-L: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, odal means “Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of odal is odals.
How many letters and syllables are in odal?
| Letters | 4: O-D-A-L |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 93 million words; the 309,272nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is odal?
Odal appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
What rhymes with odal?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as odal.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: load.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of odal
- odals plural
- odel
- odhal
- udal
- othala
- adul
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does odal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.
- 2
The ownership and claim of such land.
- 3
A rune in the Elder Futhark, ᛟ, associated with ancestral land.
- 4
obsoleteA large liana native to India and Southeastern Asia, Sarcostigma kleinii, used to produce therapeutic seed oil.
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to odal land.
- 2
Of or relating to an ode or odes.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of odal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does odal come from?
From Icelandic óðal (“estate”). Cognate with Norwegian odel, odal (“allodium, patrimony”), Old English ēþel (“homeland”). Compare athel, Odelsthing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).