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Added 30 September 2026

odd

/ɒd/ adjective

In Latin: impār Wiktionary

adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about odd at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
She slept in, which was very odd.
Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; mismatched.
Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.

noun

Something left over, not forming part of a set.
I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.
An odd number.
So let’s see. There are two evens here and three odds.

Origin

From Middle English odde, od (“odd (not even); leftover after division into pairs”), from Old Norse oddi (“odd, third or additional number; triangle”), from oddr (“point of a weapon”), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to stick, prick, pierce, sting”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to set, place”). Cognate to Icelandic oddi (“triangle, point of land, odd number”), Swedish udda (“odd”), udd (“a point”), Danish od (“point of weapon”) and odde (“a headland, point”), Norwegian Bokmål odde (“a point”, “odd”, “peculiar”); related to Old English ord (“a point”). Doublet of ord ("point").

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