wood pigeon
"wood-pigeon" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wood pigeon” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The common wood pigeon, an Old World species of pigeon, Columba palumbus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wood pigeon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wood pigeon” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for wood pigeon is 11 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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.
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Using “wood pigeon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-O-O-D- -P-I-G-E-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.