prayer book
"prayer-book" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prayer book” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A book containing religious prayers, and sometimes also the instructions for church services (e.g., calls and responses).
Corpus desk
Index EN-prayer-book · prayer book · English
prayer book · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prayer book |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “prayer book” in English
Rare enough to double-check
prayer book is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
prayer book has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is prayer book, spelled P-R-A-Y-E-R- -B-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1A book containing religious prayers, and sometimes also the instructions for church services (e.g., calls and responses).
- 2The Book of Common Prayer.
- 3A small holystone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prayer book appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: breviary, liturgy, missal, portal, portass, psalter, church service
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.