rach
/ɹætʃ/
"rach" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rach” is uncommon English (frequency #50,757 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,757
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a dog that hunts by scent
Corpus desk
Index EN-rach · rach · English
rach · rank #50,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,757
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rabbinical
Nearest frequency peer: rabbinical (-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 “rach”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Queenie
Queenie
49,247 corpus weight
- rabbinical
rabbinical
49,245 corpus weight
- rach
rach
49,244 corpus weight
- raga
raga
49,243 corpus weight
- raggedy
raggedy
49,242 corpus weight
- rawhide
rawhide
49,241 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rach” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rach |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹætʃ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rach” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rach is uncommon English at frequency #50,757 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹætʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a dog that hunts by scent".
rach has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English rache, racche, rachche, from Old English ræċċ. The correct English form is rach, spelled R-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1a dog that hunts by scent
Etymology
From Middle English rache, racche, rachche, from Old English ræċċ.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).