# ould

> English word · Adjective · IPA /aʊld/ · frequency rank #48,397

## Definitions
1. Pronunciation spelling of old.

## Etymology
Dialectal pronunciation of old, preserving 17th-century English.

## Easily confused with
- **out** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ould-vs-out)
- **our** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ould-vs-our)
- **owl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ould-vs-owl)
- **ours** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ould-vs-ours)
- **owed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ould-vs-owed)
- **owls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ould-vs-owls)
- **oust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ould-vs-oust)
- **Ovid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ould-vs-ovid)
- **outdo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ould-vs-outdo)
- **ou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ou-vs-ould)
- **od** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/od-vs-ould)
- **old** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/old-vs-ould)
- **oil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oil-vs-ould)
- **odd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/odd-vs-ould)
- **ole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ole-vs-ould)
- **OCD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ocd-vs-ould)
- **Ola** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ola-vs-ould)
- **ord** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ord-vs-ould)
- **oui** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oui-vs-ould)
- **only** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/only-vs-ould)

## Common misspellings (4)
`oudl`, `ouldd`, `oulld`, `uold`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ould