bride price
/ˈbɹaɪd pɹaɪs/
"bride-price" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bride price” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bride price |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹaɪd pɹaɪs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bride price” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for bride price is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɹaɪd pɹaɪs/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bride price in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is bride price, spelled B-R-I-D-E- -P-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bride price”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-R-I-D-E- -P-R-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbɹaɪd pɹaɪs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.