Wotan
"wotan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wotan” is uncommon English (frequency #76,477 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,477
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Odin, especially in his continental Germanic form.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wotan · Wotan · English
Wotan · rank #76,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,477
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH worthlessness
Nearest frequency peer: worthlessness (-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 “Wotan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wonderfull
wonderfull
23,530 corpus weight
- woodshed
woodshed
23,529 corpus weight
- Woonsocket
Woonsocket
23,527 corpus weight
- workmanlike
workmanlike
23,526 corpus weight
- worthlessne…
worthlessness
23,525 corpus weight
- Wotan
Wotan
23,524 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Wotan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wotan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Wotan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Wotan is uncommon English at frequency #76,477 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Odin, especially in his continental Germanic form.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Wotan in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Wotan. Doublet of Woden and Odin. The correct English form is Wotan, spelled W-O-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Odin, especially in his continental Germanic form.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wotan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wotan, finding that there is no escape, turns for help and advice to Loge, the God of Evil, the spirit of flickering, treacherous fire, the master of cunning and deceit; and he introduces to gods and giants the lust for gold.
In Anglo-Saxon mythology, kings were descended from Wotan, or Odin, the high god of the Teutonic pantheon.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Wotan. Doublet of Woden and Odin.
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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