wold
/wəʊld/
"wold" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wold” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,997. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,997
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wold · wold · English
wold · rank #42,997 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,997
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wisp
Nearest frequency peer: wisp (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “wold”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Willi
Willi
57,007 corpus weight
- Winnebago
Winnebago
57,006 corpus weight
- wisp
wisp
57,005 corpus weight
- wold
wold
57,004 corpus weight
- Xena
Xena
57,002 corpus weight
- Xerxes
Xerxes
57,001 corpus weight
What this shows “wold” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | wold |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /wəʊld/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “wold”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around wold (IPA /wəʊld/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,997 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for wold, with forms such as "owld", "wlod", and "wodl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "won", "wow", "woo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wald, wold, from Old English wald, weald (“highland covered with trees, wood, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(ə)-t-. Doublet of weald. Cognates See also Saterland Fris… The correct English form is wold, spelled W-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
- 2A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wold appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old; He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;
[…]—I came with my cousin, Frank Osbaldistone, there, and I must shew him the way back again to the Hall, or he’ll lose himself in the wolds.
Etymology
From Middle English wald, wold, from Old English wald, weald (“highland covered with trees, wood, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(ə)-t-. Doublet of weald. Cognates See also Saterland Frisian Woold (“forest”), West Frisian wâld (“forest”), Bavarian Woid (“forest”), Cimbrian balt (“forest”), Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”), German Low German Woold, Woolt (“forest”), Luxembourgish Wal (“forest”), Mòcheno bòlt (“forest”), Yiddish וואַלד (vald, “forest”), Danish vold (“field, meadow”), val (“plain”), Faroese vøllur (“field, lawn”), Icelandic völlur (“field, lawn”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk voll (“field, meadow”), Swedish vall (“field, meadow”), Welsh gwallt (“hair”), Lithuanian váltis (“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlât (“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, “hairy”)); also the related term weald.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owld
- wlod
- wodl
- woldd
- wolld
- wwold
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wold - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).