wid
/wɪd/
"wid" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wid” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,993) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,993
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronunciation spelling of with.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wid · wid · English
wid · rank #42,993 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,993
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Willi
Nearest frequency peer: Willi (+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 neighbourhood for “wid”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- warlike
warlike
57,014 corpus weight
- wid
wid
57,008 corpus weight
- Willi
Willi
57,007 corpus weight
- Winnebago
Winnebago
57,006 corpus weight
- wisp
wisp
57,005 corpus weight
- wold
wold
57,004 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wid” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | wid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /wɪd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wid” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wid is neighbouring look-alikes ("Wu", "wo", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced /wɪd/. Frequency #42,993 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Pronunciation spelling of with.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for wid in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Wu", "wo", "wt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of with. The correct English form is wid, spelled W-I-D.
Definition
- 1Pronunciation spelling of with.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“An’ wid all d’ bringin’ up she had, how could she?” moaningly she asked of her son. “Wid all d’ talkin’ wid her I did an’ d’ t’ings I tol’ her to remember. When a girl is bringed up d’ way I bringed up Maggie, how kin she go teh d’ devil?”
1922, Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape, http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Z2ZgNkU5r18C&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&sig=_ZQWa7a1p_C4jGCG0woMSdujZhw Oh, there was fine beautiful ships them days—clippers wid tall masts touching the sky—fine strong men in them—men that was sons of the sea as if ’twas the mother that bore them.
Etymology
Variant of with.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "wid" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Wu". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #42,993 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.