wrath
/ɹɒθ/noun
wrath is spelled W-R-A-T-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “wrath vs wroth” about 40 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, wrath means “Great anger; (countable) an instance of this” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wrath is wraths.
How many letters and syllables are in wrath?
| Letters | 5: W-R-A-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is wrath?
Wrath appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce wrath?
- UK /ɹɒθ/
- UK /ɹɔːθ/
- UK /ɹɑːθ/
Wrath has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-wrath.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with wrath
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with wrath?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wrath from its last stressed vowel (/ɒθ/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: warth.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of wrath
- wraths plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- wrathing participle, present
- wrathed participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
- more wrath comparative
- most wrath superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wrath mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.
- 2
Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.
the wrath of God
- 3
obsoleteGreat ardour or passion.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo anger (someone); to enrage.
- 2
obsoleteTo become angry with (someone).
- 3
obsoleteTo become angry.
adjective
- 1
archaicobsoleteSynonym of wroth (“full of anger; wrathful”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Wrath in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | colère, courroux, fureur, ire |
| German | Ärger, Ingrimm, Wut, Zorn , Vergeltung |
| Portuguese | cólera, ira, fúria |
| Spanish | cólera, furia, ira , castigo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does wrath come from?
The noun is derived from Middle English wratthe (“anger, hostility, distress 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); compare Dutch wreedte.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).