brads
"brads" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brads” is uncommon English (frequency #95,761 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,761
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of brad
Corpus desk
Index EN-brads · brads · English
brads · rank #95,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,761
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Brahm
Nearest frequency peer: Brahm (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “brads”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bonanno
Bonanno
4,246 corpus weight
- botts
botts
4,244 corpus weight
- Bourges
Bourges
4,243 corpus weight
- brads
brads
4,240 corpus weight
- Brahm
Brahm
4,238 corpus weight
- Brasileira
Brasileira
4,237 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brads” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brads |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brads” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brads is uncommon English at frequency #95,761 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brads, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is brads, spelled B-R-A-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of brad
- 2Money.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brads appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"All serene, old un — but 'ave yer got the brads (money) to pay for it?" said Bill, sneeringly, with another scornful glance at his fare's humble exterior.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).