oddity
/ˈɒdɪti/
"oddity" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oddity” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,523. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,523
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An odd or strange thing or opinion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oddity · oddity · English
oddity · rank #38,523 · 7 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,523
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH numeral
Nearest frequency peer: numeral (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “oddity”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Nineveh
Nineveh
61,483 corpus weight
- nostril
nostril
61,482 corpus weight
- numeral
numeral
61,479 corpus weight
- oddity
oddity
61,478 corpus weight
- odious
odious
61,477 corpus weight
- offbeat
offbeat
61,475 corpus weight
What this shows “oddity” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oddity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɒdɪti/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “oddity”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around oddity (IPA /ˈɒdɪti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,523 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for oddity, with forms such as "dodity", "odditty", and "oddityy". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "oddly", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From odd + -ity. The correct English form is oddity, spelled O-D-D-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1An odd or strange thing or opinion.
- 2A strange person; an oddball.
- 3Strangeness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oddity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in…
An Avonside 0-4-4T with outside cylinders, bought by the S.M.A. in 1882 and scrapped in 1892 as a dismal failure, was one of the motive power oddities (some of them mortgaged).
Etymology
From odd + -ity.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dodity
- odditty
- oddityy
- oddiyt
- oddtiy
- odidty
- odity
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oddity - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).