cryer
"cryer" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cryer” is uncommon English (frequency #63,535 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,535
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic form of crier.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cryer · cryer · English
cryer · rank #63,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,535
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crossrail
Nearest frequency peer: crossrail (-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 “cryer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cormorant
cormorant
36,473 corpus weight
- crafter
crafter
36,469 corpus weight
- crossrail
crossrail
36,467 corpus weight
- cryer
cryer
36,466 corpus weight
- currier
currier
36,463 corpus weight
- Daan
Daan
36,460 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cryer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cryer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cryer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cryer is uncommon English at frequency #63,535 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archaic form of crier.".
cryer has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cryer, spelled C-R-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Archaic form of crier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cryer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a town cryer
Every attorney of the court pays […] 4d. a term for the cryers of the court.
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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