sodding
"sodding" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sodding” is uncommon English (frequency #82,794 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,794
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An intensifier.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sodding · sodding · English
sodding · rank #82,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,794
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH snog
Nearest frequency peer: snog (-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 “sodding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- significati…
signification
17,216 corpus weight
- sitewide
sitewide
17,213 corpus weight
- SNCC
SNCC
17,210 corpus weight
- snog
snog
17,208 corpus weight
- sodding
sodding
17,207 corpus weight
- Stace
Stace
17,197 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sodding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sodding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sodding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sodding is uncommon English at frequency #82,794 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An intensifier.".
sodding has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is sodding, spelled S-O-D-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An intensifier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sodding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Open the sodding door!
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).