edith

As an adjective wide

is having a large physical extent from side to side.

As an adverb wide

is extensively.

As a noun wide

is (cricket) a ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score.

As a proper noun edith is

, cognate to edith.

As proper nouns the difference between edith and edythe

is that edith is , cognate to edith while edythe is , variant of edith.