wood

\wʊd\

/\wʊd\/ noun

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The verdict

“wood” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,040
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bois, substance dure et fibreuse des arbres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-wood · wood · French

wood · rank #17,040 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,040
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH wiki

Nearest frequency peer: wiki (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « wood »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « wood » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

wood vs wow
50% similar
wood vs work
50% similar
wood vs word
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for wood
PropertyValue
Headwordwood
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\wʊd\
Letters4
Frequency rank#17,040
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « wood »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).woodse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « wiki » (#17,039), « XIIe » (#17,041), « vulgarisation » (#17,038). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « wood » est au #17,040. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around wood (IPA \wʊd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,040 among 549 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for wood, with forms such as "owod", "wod", and "wodo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wow", "work", "word", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is wood, spelled W-O-O-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bois, substance dure et fibreuse des arbres.
  2. 2
    Bois (d’une espèce donnée).
  3. 3
    Bois, ensemble d’arbres assez proches, délimité par une lisière (souvent utilisé au pluriel).
  4. 4
    Bois de chauffage.
  5. 5
    Bois, club de golf à tête arrondie.
  6. 6
    Instrument à vent.
  7. 7
    Érection.
  8. 8
    Figurine du jeu d’échecs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how wood appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.
  2. He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.

Synonyms

woody

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • owod
  • wod
  • wodo
  • woodd
  • wwood

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wood - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

owod2wod1wodo2woodd1wwood1
Edit distance from "wood"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wood"?
"wood" is spelled W-O-O-D. The IPA pronunciation is \wʊd\.
What does "wood" mean?
As a noun, "wood" means: Bois, substance dure et fibreuse des arbres.
What words are commonly confused with "wood"?
"wood" is commonly confused with "wow", "work", "word". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "wood"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wood" is \wʊd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wood" come from?
"wood" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "wood", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

wiki#17,039XIIe#17,041very#17,034cake#17,085

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

Yonne5 variantsvielle5 variantsClio5 variantsEllis5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list