# turd

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɜːd/ · frequency rank #24,036

## Definitions
1. A piece of solid feces.
2. A worthless person or thing.

## Etymology
From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tord, from Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle.

## Easily confused with
- **tut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-tut)
- **tux** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-tux)
- **Tyr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-tyr)
- **turn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-turn)
- **turf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-turf)
- **tyre** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-tyre)
- **Turk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-turk)
- **tutu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-tutu)
- **tusk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-tusk)
- **turns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-turns)
- **Turin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-turin)
- **turned** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/turd-vs-turned)
- **TD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/td-vs-turd)
- **Tu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tu-vs-turd)
- **try** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/try-vs-turd)
- **Ted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ted-vs-turd)
- **tub** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tub-vs-turd)
- **tri** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tri-vs-turd)
- **tar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tar-vs-turd)
- **tor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tor-vs-turd)

## Common misspellings (6)
`trud`, `tturd`, `tudr`, `turdd`, `turrd`, `utrd`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/turd