woody
The verdict
“woody” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,285. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,285
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boisé, vieilli dans un fût en bois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-woody · woody · French
woody · rank #15,285 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,285
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH volley
Nearest frequency peer: volley (-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 « woody »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Vidal
Vidal
84,719 corpus weight
- volley
volley
84,717 corpus weight
- woody
woody
84,716 corpus weight
- yaourt
yaourt
84,715 corpus weight
- électoraux
électoraux
84,714 corpus weight
- équipages
équipages
84,713 corpus weight
What this shows « woody » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « woody »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around woody, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,285 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how woody appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This wine has a woody flavor.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "woody", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).