pud
/pʊd/
"pud" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pud” is uncommon English (frequency #55,037 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,037
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pudding (either sweet or savoury).
Corpus desk
Index EN-pud · pud · English
pud · rank #55,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,037
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pudgy
Nearest frequency peer: pudgy (+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 “pud”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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presidente
44,968 corpus weight
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44,967 corpus weight
- proselytizi…
proselytizing
44,966 corpus weight
- pud
pud
44,964 corpus weight
- pudgy
pudgy
44,963 corpus weight
- pyruvate
pyruvate
44,962 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pud” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pud |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pʊd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pud” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pud is uncommon English at frequency #55,037 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pʊd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pudding (either sweet or savoury).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pud, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipped form of pudding. The correct English form is pud, spelled P-U-D.
Definition
- 1Pudding (either sweet or savoury).
Etymology
Clipped form of pudding.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).