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Rule "wold (world)"

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Description: wold (world)
Message: Are you sure that "wold" is the correct noun here? A wold is an upland area of open country.
Category: Possible Typo (ID: TYPOS)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • This is the largest cake in the wold.
    Correction suggestion: word, world, wild
  • Is America the largest country in the wold?
    Correction suggestion: word, world, wild
  • Wold politics interests me.
    Correction suggestion: Word, World, Wild
  • What are the origins of the wold wide web?
    Correction suggestion: word, world, wild
  • This unusual wold exemplified the problems of disambiguation.
    Correction suggestion: word, world, wild
  • This wold shows how a single letter can change the meaning entirely.
    Correction suggestion: word, world, wild
  • Our troubled wold pains me; it could be so much better.
    Correction suggestion: word, world, wild
  • Our wold has many problems.
    Correction suggestion: word, world, wild
  • Many people in the wold argued that trade was necessary.
    Correction suggestion: word, world, wild
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • This is the largest cake in the world.
  • I wold like a cup of tea.
  • 400 million wold have been better.
  • The discovery of 5 wold have been hailed as a triumph of intergalactic space exploration.
  • More than three items wold not actually have been a problem.
  • ... and specifically wold have locked out competition.
  • My first guess wold be a belt tensioner.
  • My second guess wold actually be that you should start again.
  • I can see how this wold be a powerful option for Insights.
  • Stow on the Wold is beautiful.
  • A wold is an upland area of open country.
  • They went riding out along the ridge of the wold toward Burythorpe.
  • Wold's thesis, A Study in the analysis of stationary time series, was an important contribution.
  • Wold argued that doing a trade over the telephone was still, in most cases, the quickest method.
  • Wold actually argue with me for hours.
  • Other terms used to mean "an area with a high density of trees" are wood, woodland, wold, weald, holt, frith and firth.
  • They had to do a firmware update to my SmartThings hub before the bulbs wold function.
  • I could not find any settings that wold override this.
  • The cybercourt wold have the same power to subpoena witnesses.
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ID: WOLD [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-03-28 22:33:07 +0100)