braying
"braying" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“braying” is uncommon English (frequency #76,596 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,596
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act or sound of braying.
Corpus desk
Index EN-braying · braying · English
braying · rank #76,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,596
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH brewhouse
Nearest frequency peer: brewhouse (+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 “braying”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bohannon
Bohannon
23,412 corpus weight
- bolívar
bolívar
23,411 corpus weight
- bottega
bottega
23,408 corpus weight
- braying
braying
23,405 corpus weight
- brewhouse
brewhouse
23,403 corpus weight
- brigantine
brigantine
23,402 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “braying” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “braying” in English
Rare enough to double-check
braying is uncommon English at frequency #76,596 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An act or sound of braying.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for braying in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is braying, spelled B-R-A-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An act or sound of braying.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how braying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We heard the unpleasant braying of the snipe, now near to us, now far off, now high up in the air, now right over our heads, and suddenly it seemed close to our ears, now on all sides, still without our being able to catch sight of the bird.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).