oden
"oden" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oden” is uncommon English (frequency #51,289 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,289
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Japanese one pot winter dish, of varying ingredients.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oden · oden · English
oden · rank #51,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,289
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Octavius
Nearest frequency peer: Octavius (-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 “oden”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- objector
objector
48,715 corpus weight
- Octavius
Octavius
48,713 corpus weight
- oden
oden
48,712 corpus weight
- Ojai
Ojai
48,710 corpus weight
- optometrist
optometrist
48,708 corpus weight
- Orestes
Orestes
48,706 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “oden” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oden |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “oden” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oden is uncommon English at frequency #51,289 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Japanese one pot winter dish, of varying ingredients.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for oden, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese おでん. The correct English form is oden, spelled O-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1A Japanese one pot winter dish, of varying ingredients.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oden appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The arrival of cooler weather means konbini counters will soon be offering piping hot oden – a kind of Japanese stew.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese おでん.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).