OPD
"opd" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“OPD” is uncommon English (frequency #79,819 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,819
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Initialism of Oakland Police Department.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OPD |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #79,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “OPD” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
OPD is uncommon English at frequency #79,819 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of Oakland Police Department.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for OPD, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is OPD, spelled O-P-D.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Oakland Police Department.
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 “OPD”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-P-D - 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.