trod
/tɹɒd/
"trod" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trod” is uncommon English (frequency #50,857 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,857
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past of tread
Corpus desk
Index EN-trod · trod · English
trod · rank #50,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,857
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH troubadour
Nearest frequency peer: troubadour (+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 “trod”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- trax
trax
49,148 corpus weight
- Trinidadian
Trinidadian
49,146 corpus weight
- trod
trod
49,144 corpus weight
- troubadour
troubadour
49,143 corpus weight
- tumbleweed
tumbleweed
49,142 corpus weight
- Turkestan
Turkestan
49,141 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “trod” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trod |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tɹɒd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “trod” in English
Rare enough to double-check
trod is uncommon English at frequency #50,857 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /tɹɒd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past of tread".
Zero misspellings are on record for trod in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: See tread. The correct English form is trod, spelled T-R-O-D.
Definition
- 1simple past of tread
Etymology
See tread.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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