Yggdrasil
/ˈɪɡdɹəsɪl/
"yggdrasil" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yggdrasil” is uncommon English (frequency #66,420 among 2,763 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,420
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yggdrasil |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɪɡdɹəsɪl/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Yggdrasil” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Yggdrasil is uncommon English at frequency #66,420 among 2,763 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɪɡdɹəsɪl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Yggdrasil in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Old Norse Yggdrasill; commonly accepted as being composed Yggr (“terrible”) + drasill (“steed”), where “steed” refers to a hanging tree or possibly from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). The correct English form is Yggdrasil, spelled Y-G-G-D-R-A-S-I-L.
Definition
- 1An immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse Yggdrasill; commonly accepted as being composed Yggr (“terrible”) + drasill (“steed”), where “steed” refers to a hanging tree or possibly from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
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 “Yggdrasil”
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- The one correct English spelling is Y-G-G-D-R-A-S-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.