ods
"ods" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ods” is uncommon English (frequency #55,621 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,621
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - God's
Corpus desk
Index EN-ods · ods · English
ods · rank #55,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,621
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH objectified
Nearest frequency peer: objectified (-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 “ods”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- noni
noni
44,384 corpus weight
- Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk
44,383 corpus weight
- nutcase
nutcase
44,382 corpus weight
- objectified
objectified
44,381 corpus weight
- ods
ods
44,380 corpus weight
- Oligocene
Oligocene
44,379 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ods” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ods |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ods” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ods is uncommon English at frequency #55,621 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "God's".
Zero misspellings are on record for ods in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is ods, spelled O-D-S.
Definition
- 1God's
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ods appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ods bodikin.
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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