swole
/swəʊl/
"swole" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“swole” is an uncommon English word, ranked #61,846 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #61,846
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Swollen, enlarged.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | swole |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /swəʊl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “swole” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for swole is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /swəʊl/. Corpus data places it at rank #61,846 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
swole doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From earlier swoll, from Middle English swal, swall, swalle (simple past tense), and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle (past participle), inflected forms of swellen (“to swell”), from Old English sweall (simple past tense), from P… The correct English form is swole, spelled S-W-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Swollen, enlarged.
- 2Swollen, enlarged.
- 3Swollen, enlarged.
- 4Full (of something); bursting with.
- 5Extremely proud or arrogant.
- 6Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion.
Etymology
From earlier swoll, from Middle English swal, swall, swalle (simple past tense), and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle (past participle), inflected forms of swellen (“to swell”), from Old English sweall (simple past tense), from Proto-Germanic *swall, first and third person singular preterite of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”); further origin uncertain.
Synonyms
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 “swole”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-W-O-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /swəʊl/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.