Odense
"odense" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Odense” is uncommon English (frequency #84,578 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,578
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The largest city in the Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark) and third-largest city in Denmark.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Odense |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Odense” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Odense is uncommon English at frequency #84,578 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Odense in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Danish Odense. The correct English form is Odense, spelled O-D-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1The largest city in the Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark) and third-largest city in Denmark.
- 2Odense Municipality (Odense Kommune), the municipality of which the city of Odense is administrative centre.
- 3An unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas, United States, named after the Danish city. See Odense, Kansas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish Odense.
This word in other languages
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 “Odense”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-D-E-N-S-E - 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.