bride price
/ˈbɹaɪd pɹaɪs/
"bride-price" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bride price” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bride-price · bride price · English
bride price · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “bride price” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bride price is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɹaɪd pɹaɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bride price appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is well known in Artas as in other villages exactly what the bride price should customarily be—so much for a cousin bride, so much more for a village bride, more still for a stranger.
Taiqian county in Henan province has issued guidelines saying grooms should pay no more than 60,000 yuan (HK$67,000) as a “bride price”, the Chinese tradition that a male partner offers money to his fiancée’s family to secure their marriage.
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.