wroth
/ɹəʊθ/
"wroth" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wroth” is an uncommon English word, ranked #84,920 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #84,920
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Full of anger; wrathful.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wroth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɹəʊθ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wroth” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for wroth is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹəʊθ/. Corpus data places it at rank #84,920 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Full of anger; wrathful.".
No misspelling variants are generated for wroth in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wroth, wrooth, from Old English wrāþ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”). Akin to Saterland Frisian wreed (“haughty; proud”), Old Saxon wrēd (“evil”) (Dutch wreed (“cruel”)), Old High Ger… The correct English form is wroth, spelled W-R-O-T-H.
Definition
- 1Full of anger; wrathful.
Etymology
From Middle English wroth, wrooth, from Old English wrāþ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”). Akin to Saterland Frisian wreed (“haughty; proud”), Old Saxon wrēd (“evil”) (Dutch wreed (“cruel”)), Old High German reid (“cruel”), Old Norse reiðr (“angry”) (Danish vred, Swedish vred).
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 “wroth”
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- The one correct English spelling is W-R-O-T-H - 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.