odder
/ˈɑd.ɚ/
"odder" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“odder” is uncommon English (frequency #84,577 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,577
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comparative form of odd: more odd
Corpus desk
Index EN-odder · odder · English
odder · rank #84,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,577
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Odense
Nearest frequency peer: Odense (+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 “odder”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- obeisance
obeisance
15,428 corpus weight
- Obrador
Obrador
15,427 corpus weight
- obstruction…
obstructionism
15,426 corpus weight
- odder
odder
15,424 corpus weight
- Odense
Odense
15,423 corpus weight
- omnipresence
omnipresence
15,421 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “odder” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “odder” in English
Rare enough to double-check
odder is uncommon English at frequency #84,577 among 1,431 “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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