brickyard
/ˈbɹɪkˌjɑɹd/
"brickyard" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brickyard” is uncommon English (frequency #66,523 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,523
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place where bricks are, or once were, produced or distributed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brickyard · brickyard · English
brickyard · rank #66,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,523
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bratwurst
Nearest frequency peer: bratwurst (-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 “brickyard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bossier
Bossier
33,481 corpus weight
- brainwave
brainwave
33,480 corpus weight
- bratwurst
bratwurst
33,479 corpus weight
- brickyard
brickyard
33,478 corpus weight
- Brutalist
Brutalist
33,476 corpus weight
- bryony
bryony
33,475 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brickyard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brickyard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹɪkˌjɑɹd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brickyard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brickyard is uncommon English at frequency #66,523 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɹɪkˌjɑɹd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A place where bricks are, or once were, produced or distributed.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for brickyard, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From brick + yard. The correct English form is brickyard, spelled B-R-I-C-K-Y-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A place where bricks are, or once were, produced or distributed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brickyard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Since Vanita was a child, the family has roamed the country in search of work — in construction and road-building, and finally, here to this brickyard.
Etymology
From brick + yard.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).