drey
/dɹeɪ/noun
drey is spelled D-R-E-Y: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, drey means “A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of drey is dreys.
How many letters and syllables are in drey?
| Letters | 4: D-R-E-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 15 million words; the 117,098th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is drey?
Drey appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce drey?
- /dɹeɪ/
Drey has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-drey.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with drey
Sounds like: dray (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with drey?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as drey.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: dyer.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of drey
- dreys plural
- dray
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does drey mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
UKA squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree.
- 2
AustraliaA possum’s nest, built of twigs and leaves in a tree.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Drey in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense squirrel's nest:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Kobel |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does drey come from?
Unknown.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).