woodchuck
/ˈwʊd.t͡ʃʌk/
"woodchuck" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“woodchuck” is uncommon English (frequency #67,178 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,178
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.
Corpus desk
Index EN-woodchuck · woodchuck · English
woodchuck · rank #67,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,178
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wogan
Nearest frequency peer: Wogan (-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 “woodchuck”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Windex
Windex
32,828 corpus weight
- Wofford
Wofford
32,825 corpus weight
- Wogan
Wogan
32,824 corpus weight
- woodchuck
woodchuck
32,823 corpus weight
- yaar
yaar
32,819 corpus weight
- yogic
yogic
32,818 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “woodchuck” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | woodchuck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwʊd.t͡ʃʌk/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “woodchuck” in English
Rare enough to double-check
woodchuck is uncommon English at frequency #67,178 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈwʊd.t͡ʃʌk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for woodchuck, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Cree ocêk, otchek (“fisher”), Ojibwe ojiig (“fisher, marten”), or a similar term in a related Algonquian language, subsequently reapplied to the groundhog. An earlier form of this word, woodshock, still sometimes designates the marten. Also a … The correct English form is woodchuck, spelled W-O-O-D-C-H-U-C-K.
Definition
- 1A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.
Etymology
Borrowed from Cree ocêk, otchek (“fisher”), Ojibwe ojiig (“fisher, marten”), or a similar term in a related Algonquian language, subsequently reapplied to the groundhog. An earlier form of this word, woodshock, still sometimes designates the marten. Also a doublet of wejack.
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); 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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