Ouray
/ˈjʊəɹeɪ/
"ouray" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ouray” is uncommon English (frequency #89,715 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,715
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small city, the county seat of Ouray County, Colorado, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ouray · Ouray · English
Ouray · rank #89,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,715
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH osmium
Nearest frequency peer: osmium (-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 “Ouray”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Orne
Orne
10,290 corpus weight
- oropharynge…
oropharyngeal
10,289 corpus weight
- osmium
osmium
10,287 corpus weight
- Ouray
Ouray
10,286 corpus weight
- outfall
outfall
10,285 corpus weight
- outsize
outsize
10,284 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Ouray” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ouray |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈjʊəɹeɪ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ouray” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ouray is uncommon English at frequency #89,715 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈjʊəɹeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Ouray in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after Chief Ouray. The correct English form is Ouray, spelled O-U-R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A small city, the county seat of Ouray County, Colorado, United States.
- 2An unincorporated community in Uintah County, Utah, United States.
Etymology
Named after Chief Ouray.
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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