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 May 6, 2026) - A book containing religious prayers, and sometimes also the instructions for church services (e.g., calls and responses).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prayer book |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prayer book” sits in English frequency
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.
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.
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Using “prayer book”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-A-Y-E-R- -B-O-O-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.