brazier
/ˈbɹeɪʒəɹ/
"brazier" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brazier” is uncommon English (frequency #50,998 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,998
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A worker in brass; a brassworker.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brazier · brazier · English
brazier · rank #50,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,998
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH brazenly
Nearest frequency peer: brazenly (-1 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 “brazier”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- borer
borer
49,007 corpus weight
- Bradenton
Bradenton
49,005 corpus weight
- brazenly
brazenly
49,004 corpus weight
- brazier
brazier
49,003 corpus weight
- BrE
BrE
49,002 corpus weight
- brony
brony
48,999 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brazier” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brazier |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹeɪʒəɹ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brazier” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brazier is uncommon English at frequency #50,998 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɹeɪʒəɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A worker in brass; a brassworker.".
No misspelling variants are generated for brazier in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English brasiere, from brasen (“to cover with brass”), from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”). By surface analysis, bras(s) + -ier. The correct English form is brazier, spelled B-R-A-Z-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1A worker in brass; a brassworker.
Etymology
From Middle English brasiere, from brasen (“to cover with brass”), from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”). By surface analysis, bras(s) + -ier.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).