wordy

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The English entry for wordy is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈwɝdi/. Corpus data places it at rank #49,727 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Using an excessive number of words.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for wordy, with forms such as "owrdy", "wodry", and "worddy". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wry", "work", "wore", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordiġ (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word + -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is wordy, spelled W-O-R-D-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.