prairie
/ˈpɹɛə.ɹi/noun
prairie is spelled P-R-A-I-R-I-E. The wrong spelling people search most is prarie: about 780 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Prairie is a noun meaning “An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America”. The plural of prairie is prairies.
How many letters and syllables are in prairie?
| Letters | 7: P-R-A-I-R-I-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, prarie, about 780 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell prairie?
Prairie is spelled P-R-A-I-R-I-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for prairie in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is prairie?
Prairie appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 prairie?
- UK /ˈpɹɛə.ɹi/
- /ˈpɹɛəɹi/
- [ˈpɹɛɹi]
Prairie has 2 syllables (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: En-us-prairie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with prairie?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as prairie from its last stressed vowel (/ɛəɹi/, British pronunciation):
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 prairie
- prairies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prairie mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prairie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense An extensive area of relatively flat grassland:
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 prairie come from?
Borrowed from French prairie, from Old French praerie, from Vulgar Latin *prataria, from Latin prātum (“meadow”) + -aria.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).