wod
"wod" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wod” is uncommon English (frequency #57,179 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,179
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of wood.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wod · wod · English
wod · rank #57,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,179
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH windswept
Nearest frequency peer: windswept (-3 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 “wod”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wilford
Wilford
42,827 corpus weight
- windswept
windswept
42,825 corpus weight
- wod
wod
42,822 corpus weight
- Xiamen
Xiamen
42,818 corpus weight
- Yamazaki
Yamazaki
42,817 corpus weight
- Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta
42,816 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wod” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wod |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #57,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wod” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wod is uncommon English at frequency #57,179 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of wood.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for wod, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is wod, spelled W-O-D.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of wood.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wod appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wᵗ nales and hammers, that it moue not.
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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