Wohl
"wohl" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wohl” is uncommon English (frequency #73,802 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,802
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from German.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wohl · Wohl · English
Wohl · rank #73,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,802
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH windup
Nearest frequency peer: windup (-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 “Wohl”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- whirled
whirled
26,203 corpus weight
- willet
willet
26,201 corpus weight
- windup
windup
26,200 corpus weight
- Wohl
Wohl
26,199 corpus weight
- wonton
wonton
26,198 corpus weight
- workgroup
workgroup
26,196 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Wohl” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wohl |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Wohl” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Wohl is uncommon English at frequency #73,802 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from German.".
Wohl doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a German and Jewish surname, borrowed from the adjective meaning "good, pleasant" (see below). * As a north/Low German surname, from Middle Low German wolt (“wood, forest”). The correct English form is Wohl, spelled W-O-H-L.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
Etymology
* As a German and Jewish surname, borrowed from the adjective meaning "good, pleasant" (see below). * As a north/Low German surname, from Middle Low German wolt (“wood, forest”).
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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