peckerwood
/ˈpɛkɚwʊd/noun
peckerwood is spelled P-E-C-K-E-R-W-O-O-D: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, peckerwood means “A woodpecker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of peckerwood is peckerwoods.
How many letters and syllables are in peckerwood?
| Letters | 10: P-E-C-K-E-R-W-O-O-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 30 million words; the 167,786th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is peckerwood?
Peckerwood appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce peckerwood?
- US /ˈpɛkɚwʊd/
- UK /ˈpɛkəwʊd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-peckerwood.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with peckerwood?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as peckerwood (/ɛkəɹwʊd/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: woodpecker.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of peckerwood
- peckerwoods plural
- peckawood
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does peckerwood mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangA woodpecker.
- 2
A peckerwood sawmill.
- 3
USoffensiveslangA white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
- 4
slangA white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does peckerwood come from?
Inversion of woodpecker. Application to white people is due to the perception that the woodpecker is a symbol of whites, whereas the crow or blackbird is a symbol of blacks.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).