Woden
"woden" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Woden” is uncommon English (frequency #81,034 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,034
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war (corresponding to Odin), especially in his Anglo-Saxon form.
Corpus desk
Index EN-woden · Woden · English
Woden · rank #81,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,034
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wistar
Nearest frequency peer: Wistar (-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 “Woden”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wirtz
Wirtz
18,969 corpus weight
- Wistar
Wistar
18,968 corpus weight
- Woden
Woden
18,967 corpus weight
- wole
wole
18,966 corpus weight
- wookie
wookie
18,963 corpus weight
- wos
wos
18,962 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Woden” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Woden |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Woden” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Woden is uncommon English at frequency #81,034 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war (corresponding to Odin), especially in his Anglo-Saxon form.".
Woden doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Old English Wōden, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Doublet of Odin and Wotan. The correct English form is Woden, spelled W-O-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war (corresponding to Odin), especially in his Anglo-Saxon form.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Woden appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
From Woden, by which name they stiled Mercurie.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old English Wōden, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Doublet of Odin and Wotan.
This word in other languages
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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