woodwind
/ˈwʊdwɪnd/
"woodwind" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“woodwind” is uncommon English (frequency #55,864 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,864
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarine...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | woodwind |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwʊdwɪnd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “woodwind” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
woodwind is uncommon English at frequency #55,864 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈwʊdwɪnd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarine...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for woodwind, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wood + wind. The correct English form is woodwind, spelled W-O-O-D-W-I-N-D.
Definition
- 1Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
Etymology
From wood + wind.
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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Using “woodwind”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-O-O-D-W-I-N-D - 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.