woody
The verdict
“woody” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #15,285 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #15,285
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Boisé, vieilli dans un fût en bois.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | woody |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “woody” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for woody is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #15,285 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Boisé, vieilli dans un fût en bois.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for woody, with forms such as "owody", "wodoy", and "wody". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "word", "words", "woo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is woody, spelled W-O-O-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Boisé, vieilli dans un fût en bois.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: owody,wodoy,wody,wooddy,woodyy,wooyd,wwoody
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of woody - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Using “woody”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is W-O-O-D-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “word” - see the side-by-side comparison. woody vs word
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.