bryony
/ˈbɹaɪəni/
"bryony" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bryony” is uncommon English (frequency #66,526 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,526
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A perennial herb of the genus Bryonia, especially the common wild subspecies Bryonia cretica dioica (syn. Bryonia dioica).
Corpus desk
Index EN-bryony · bryony · English
bryony · rank #66,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,526
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Brutalist
Nearest frequency peer: Brutalist (-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 “bryony”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- brickyard
brickyard
33,478 corpus weight
- Brutalist
Brutalist
33,476 corpus weight
- bryony
bryony
33,475 corpus weight
- buccal
buccal
33,474 corpus weight
- buckaroo
buckaroo
33,473 corpus weight
- bullocks
bullocks
33,472 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bryony” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “bryony” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bryony is uncommon English at frequency #66,526 among 4,121 “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).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bryony appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a sudden a low breath / Of tender air made tremble in the hedge / The fragil bindweed-bells and briony rings; […]
I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.
Etymology
From Middle English brionie, from Latin bryōnia (“bryony”), from Ancient Greek βρυωνία (bruōnía, “bryony”), from βρύω (brúō).
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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