preys
/pɹeɪz/
"preys" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“preys” is uncommon English (frequency #53,183 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,183
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of prey
Corpus desk
Index EN-preys · preys · English
preys · rank #53,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,183
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH prenup
Nearest frequency peer: prenup (-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 “preys”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Praeger
Praeger
46,824 corpus weight
- preform
preform
46,822 corpus weight
- prelim
prelim
46,821 corpus weight
- prenup
prenup
46,819 corpus weight
- preys
preys
46,818 corpus weight
- PTT
PTT
46,813 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “preys” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preys |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɹeɪz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “preys” in English
Rare enough to double-check
preys is uncommon English at frequency #53,183 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɹeɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of prey".
preys doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is preys, spelled P-R-E-Y-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of prey
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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