weald
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weald is spelled W-E-A-L-D: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, weald means “A forest or wood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of weald is wealds.
How many letters and syllables are in weald?
| Letters | 5: W-E-A-L-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 66,686th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is weald?
Weald appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce weald?
- UK /wiːld/
- US /wild/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-weald.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with weald
Sounds like: wheeled, wield (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: wild.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with weald?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as weald from its last stressed vowel (/ild/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does weald mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
archaicA forest or wood.
- 2
archaicAn open country.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does weald come from?
From Middle English wald, walde, weld, welde, wold, wolde, woolde, wæld, from Old English wald, weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to perceive, see”) or *welH- (“to roll, undulate”). Largely displaced by forest.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).