wole
"wole" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wole” is uncommon English (frequency #81,035 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,035
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of whole.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wole · wole · English
wole · rank #81,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,035
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Woden
Nearest frequency peer: Woden (-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 “wole”
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 “wole” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wole |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wole” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wole is uncommon English at frequency #81,035 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of whole.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for wole, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is wole, spelled W-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of whole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I war sory to hear that My brother war sol i am glad that i did come away when i did god works all the things for the Best he is young he may get a long in the wole May god Bless hem ef you have any News from Petersburg Va Plas Rite me a word when you anser this Letter and ef any person came form home Letter Me know.
To make Pig Brawn Take a white or red Pig, for a spotted one is not so handsome, take a good large fat one, and being scalded and drawn bone it whole, but first cut off the head and the hinder quarters, (and leave the bone in the hinder quarters) the rest being boned cut it into 2 collars overwart both the sides, or bone the wole Pig but only the head: […]
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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