wood pigeon
"wood-pigeon" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wood pigeon” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The common wood pigeon, an Old World species of pigeon, Columba palumbus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wood-pigeon · wood pigeon · English
wood pigeon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wood pigeon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wood pigeon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wood pigeon is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
wood pigeon has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is wood pigeon, spelled W-O-O-D- -P-I-G-E-O-N.
Definition
- 1The common wood pigeon, an Old World species of pigeon, Columba palumbus.
- 2Any of several related species of pigeon in the genus Columba.
- 3A very large (up to 650 grams) species of pigeon native to New Zealand, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wood pigeon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Idiot-eyed wood pigeons lumbered across the lawn, belly-deep in clover.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.