prayer room

noun

"prayer-room" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“prayer room” 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 dedicated space, often within a home, workplace, or place of worship, designed for quiet contemplation, prayer, and spiritual reflection.

Corpus desk

Index EN-prayer-room · prayer room · English

prayer room · 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

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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.

Key facts for prayer room
PropertyValue
Headwordprayer room
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “prayer room” in English

prayer roomranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

prayer room is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A dedicated space, often within a home, workplace, or place of worship, designed for quiet contemplation, prayer, and spiritual reflection.".

No misspelling variants are generated for prayer room in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is prayer room, spelled P-R-A-Y-E-R- -R-O-O-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    A dedicated space, often within a home, workplace, or place of worship, designed for quiet contemplation, prayer, and spiritual reflection.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how prayer room appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 'Rajan,' my father summoned me, 'go and call your mother and come to the prayer room, all of you. You can keep your shoes on.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prayer room"?
"prayer room" is spelled P-R-A-Y-E-R- -R-O-O-M.
What does "prayer room" mean?
As a noun, "prayer room" means: A dedicated space, often within a home, workplace, or place of worship, designed for quiet contemplation, prayer, and spiritual reflection.
What language does "prayer room" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list