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wud

adjective, phrase

wud is spelled W-U-D: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, wud means “Mad; crazy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wud?

Letters3: W-U-D
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 90,432nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is wud?

Wud appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 90,432nd 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).

Words people confuse with wud

Also written: would.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of wud

  • more wud comparative
  • most wud superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does wud mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Mad; crazy.

  2. 2

    Furious; angry.

phrase

  1. 1

    Initialism of what('re) you doing (“what are you doing”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does wud come from?

Variant of standard English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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