zod
/zɒd/
"zod" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“zod” is uncommon English (frequency #53,966 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,966
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A loser; a contemptible or uncool person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-zod · zod · English
zod · rank #53,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,966
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH Zan
Nearest frequency peer: Zan (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “zod”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wooly
wooly
46,043 corpus weight
- wuss
wuss
46,042 corpus weight
- Yanukovych
Yanukovych
46,040 corpus weight
- yellowing
yellowing
46,039 corpus weight
- Zan
Zan
46,037 corpus weight
- zod
zod
46,035 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “zod” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zod |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /zɒd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #53,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “zod” in English
Rare enough to double-check
zod is uncommon English at frequency #53,966 among 265 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /zɒd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A loser; a contemptible or uncool person.".
zod has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: A phonetic contraction of the phrase "he's odd". The correct English form is zod, spelled Z-O-D.
Definition
- 1A loser; a contemptible or uncool person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zod appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zod: n. something really weird or totally monstrous; worse than a nerd, a yuck out. "Like I just got my hair streaked, OK, and like Brian throws me in the pool, and like the chlorine turns my hair like totally green, I mean I look like such a zod!"
Like, you know, this guy at the dance was like soooo foxy mondo!! Like totally awesome. He could have been like a model for like GQ, for sure! He was premo[,] definitely not a zod.
Etymology
A phonetic contraction of the phrase "he's odd".
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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