chay
/ˈt͡ʃeɪ/
"chay" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chay” is uncommon English (frequency #82,168 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,168
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).
Corpus desk
Index EN-chay · chay · English
chay · rank #82,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,168
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cheatham
Nearest frequency peer: Cheatham (+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 “chay”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cellulitis
cellulitis
17,839 corpus weight
- cephalic
cephalic
17,837 corpus weight
- Charleroi
Charleroi
17,836 corpus weight
- chay
chay
17,833 corpus weight
- Cheatham
Cheatham
17,832 corpus weight
- Chel
Chel
17,831 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chay” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chay |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈt͡ʃeɪ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chay” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chay is uncommon English at frequency #82,168 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈt͡ʃeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).".
chay has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is chay, spelled C-H-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).