bryony
/ˈbɹaɪəni/
"bryony" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bryony” is uncommon English (frequency #66,526 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,526
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A perennial herb of the genus Bryonia, especially the common wild subspecies Bryonia cretica dioica (syn. Bryonia dioica).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bryony |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɹaɪəni/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bryony” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bryony is uncommon English at frequency #66,526 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɹaɪəni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A perennial herb of the genus Bryonia, especially the common wild subspecies Bryonia cretica dioica (syn. Bryonia dioica).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bryony, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English brionie, from Latin bryōnia (“bryony”), from Ancient Greek βρυωνία (bruōnía, “bryony”), from βρύω (brúō). The correct English form is bryony, spelled B-R-Y-O-N-Y.
Definition
- 1A perennial herb of the genus Bryonia, especially the common wild subspecies Bryonia cretica dioica (syn. Bryonia dioica).
Etymology
From Middle English brionie, from Latin bryōnia (“bryony”), from Ancient Greek βρυωνία (bruōnía, “bryony”), from βρύω (brúō).
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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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- The one correct English spelling is B-R-Y-O-N-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.