brolly
/ˈbɹɒli/
"brolly" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brolly” is uncommon English (frequency #88,153 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,153
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of brelly.
Corpus desk
Index EN-brolly · brolly · English
brolly · rank #88,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,153
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH brucellosis
Nearest frequency peer: brucellosis (+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 “brolly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- breadcrumb
breadcrumb
11,855 corpus weight
- brillo
brillo
11,852 corpus weight
- briony
briony
11,850 corpus weight
- brolly
brolly
11,848 corpus weight
- brucellosis
brucellosis
11,847 corpus weight
- BTK
BTK
11,845 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brolly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brolly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹɒli/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brolly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
brolly is uncommon English at frequency #88,153 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɹɒli/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of brelly.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for brolly, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is brolly, spelled B-R-O-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of brelly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brolly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It's going to rain today – you'd better take your brolly.
“The young lady’s hi,” he said suddenly, holding out the umbrella, “is fixed on this here. I am well aware that it is not for the lowest of the low to carry a gentleman’s brolly, and I ask your ladyship’s pardon for the liberty. I come by it accidental-like, and should be glad of a reasonable offer from any gentleman in want of a honest article.”
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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