# wold

> English word · Noun · IPA /wəʊld/ · frequency rank #42,997

## Definitions
1. An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
2. A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **won** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-won)
- **wow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wow)
- **woo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-woo)
- **wot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wot)
- **wop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wop)
- **wor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wor)
- **work** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-work)
- **word** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-word)
- **wood** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wood)
- **wolf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wolf)
- **wore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wore)
- **worn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-worn)
- **wont** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wont)
- **wool** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wool)
- **worm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-worm)
- **wong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wong)
- **womb** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-womb)
- **woof** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-woof)
- **wort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wort)
- **wook** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wook)

## Common misspellings (6)
`owld`, `wlod`, `wodl`, `woldd`, `wolld`, `wwold`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/wold