wrath
/ɹɒθ/
"wrath" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wrath” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,328. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,328
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wrath · wrath · English
wrath · rank #11,328 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,328
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wo
Nearest frequency peer: wo (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “wrath”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- whipped
whipped
88,676 corpus weight
- who've
who've
88,675 corpus weight
- wo
wo
88,674 corpus weight
- wrath
wrath
88,673 corpus weight
- yuan
yuan
88,672 corpus weight
- Zen
Zen
88,671 corpus weight
What this shows “wrath” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wrath |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹɒθ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “wrath”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around wrath (IPA /ɹɒθ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,328 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for wrath, with forms such as "rwath", "warth", and "wraht". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "WTH", "writ", "Wray", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is derived from Middle English wraththe, wreththe (“anger, fury, rage; animosity, hostility; deadly sin of wrath; distress, vexation; punishment; retribution (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English wrǣþþu (“ire, wrath”) [and other forms], from Pr… The correct English form is wrath, spelled W-R-A-T-H.
Definition
- 1Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
- 2Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.
- 3Great ardour or passion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wrath appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.
Let all bitternes, fearſnes and wrath, rorynge and curſyd ſpeakynge, be put awaye from you, with all maliciouſnes.
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English wraththe, wreththe (“anger, fury, rage; animosity, hostility; deadly sin of wrath; distress, vexation; punishment; retribution (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English wrǣþþu (“ire, wrath”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wraiþiþu (“anger, fury, wrath”), from *wraiþ (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”) (from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”)) + *-iþu (suffix forming abstract nouns). Effectively analysable as wroth + -th (abstract nominal suffix). The verb is derived from Middle English wratthen (“to be or become angry, to rage; to quarrel; to cause wrath, offend; to become troubled or vexed; to cause grief or harm, grieve, vex”) [and other forms], from wraththe, wreththe (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Cognates * Danish vrede (“anger, wrath”) * Dutch wreedte (“cruelty”) * Icelandic reiði (“anger”) * Swedish vrede (“anger, ire, wrath”)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rwath
- warth
- wraht
- wrathh
- wratth
- wrrath
- wrtah
- wwrath
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wrath - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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