onde
"onde" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“onde” is uncommon English (frequency #95,214 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,214
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - envy; hatred; malice
Corpus desk
Index EN-onde · onde · English
onde · rank #95,214 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,214
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH omeprazole
Nearest frequency peer: omeprazole (-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 “onde”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- onde
onde
4,787 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “onde” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onde |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #95,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “onde” in English
Rare enough to double-check
onde is uncommon English at frequency #95,214 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for onde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English onde, ande, from Old English onda, anda (“zeal, indignation, anger, malice, envy, hatred”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadō, from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath, spirit, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”). Cog… The correct English form is onde, spelled O-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1envy; hatred; malice
- 2breath
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how onde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wrathe, yre, and onde — The Romaunt of the Rose.
Etymology
From Middle English onde, ande, from Old English onda, anda (“zeal, indignation, anger, malice, envy, hatred”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadō, from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath, spirit, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”). Cognate with Scots aynd, eind, end (“breath”), German Ahnd, And (“pain, anguish”), Danish ånd, ånde (“breath, spirit”), Swedish anda, ande (“spirit, breath”), Icelandic andi (“spirit”), Latin anima (“breath, spirit”). More at animal.
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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