odium
/ˈəʊ.di.əm/
"odium" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“odium” is uncommon English (frequency #95,208 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,208
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hatred; dislike.
Corpus desk
Index EN-odium · odium · English
odium · rank #95,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,208
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH obovate
Nearest frequency peer: obovate (-2 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 “odium”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nuthatch
nuthatch
4,799 corpus weight
- OAG
OAG
4,796 corpus weight
- obovate
obovate
4,795 corpus weight
- odium
odium
4,793 corpus weight
- Okhotsk
Okhotsk
4,790 corpus weight
- omeprazole
omeprazole
4,788 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “odium” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | odium |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈəʊ.di.əm/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “odium” in English
Rare enough to double-check
odium is uncommon English at frequency #95,208 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈəʊ.di.əm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for odium in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin odium. The correct English form is odium, spelled O-D-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Hatred; dislike.
- 2The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how odium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for pub…
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin odium.
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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