laye
"laye" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“laye” is uncommon English (frequency #95,063 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,063
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of lay.
Corpus desk
Index EN-laye · laye · English
laye · rank #95,063 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,063
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lassi
Nearest frequency peer: lassi (-2 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 “laye”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- landowning
landowning
4,944 corpus weight
- lapin
lapin
4,942 corpus weight
- Laski
Laski
4,941 corpus weight
- lassi
lassi
4,940 corpus weight
- laye
laye
4,938 corpus weight
- leatherette
leatherette
4,935 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “laye” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laye |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #95,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “laye” in English
Rare enough to double-check
laye is uncommon English at frequency #95,063 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of lay.".
laye doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is laye, spelled L-A-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of lay.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ye must first remember to laye the ground, that I tould you before: which is, that it is no power inherent in the circles, or in the holines of the names of God blasphemouslie vsed: nor in whatsoeuer rites or ceremonies at that time vsed, that either can raise any infernall spirit, or yet limitat him perforce within or without these circles.
He was a wight of grisly fronte, And muckle berd ther was upon 't, His lockes farre down did laye: Ful wel he setten on his hors, Thatte fony felaws called Mors, For len it was and grai.
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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