odder
/ˈɑd.ɚ/
"odder" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“odder” is uncommon English (frequency #84,577 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,577
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - comparative form of odd: more odd
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | odder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɑd.ɚ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “odder” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
odder is uncommon English at frequency #84,577 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈɑd.ɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "comparative form of odd: more odd".
No generated misspelling entries exist for odder in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is odder, spelled O-D-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1comparative form of odd: more odd
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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Using “odder”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-D-D-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.