tod
/tɒd/
"tod" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tod” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,706) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,706
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male fox.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tod · tod · English
tod · rank #23,706 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,706
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH TK
Nearest frequency peer: TK (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “tod”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- thumping
thumping
76,298 corpus weight
- TK
TK
76,296 corpus weight
- tod
tod
76,295 corpus weight
- tot
tot
76,294 corpus weight
- transcribed
transcribed
76,293 corpus weight
- tropics
tropics
76,292 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “tod” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tod |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɒd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “tod”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tod is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "TX", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /tɒd/. Frequency #23,706 among 3,151 “T” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for tod in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "TX", "Tu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail. The correct English form is tod, spelled T-O-D.
Definition
- 1A male fox.
- 2A fox in general.
- 3Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tod appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
Etymology
From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).