rade
/ɹeɪd/
"rade" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rade” is uncommon English (frequency #80,789 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,789
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of road.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rade · rade · English
rade · rank #80,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,789
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH racketeer
Nearest frequency peer: racketeer (-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 “rade”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- queerness
queerness
19,215 corpus weight
- quintuple
quintuple
19,214 corpus weight
- racketeer
racketeer
19,213 corpus weight
- rade
rade
19,212 corpus weight
- Raku
Raku
19,210 corpus weight
- razz
razz
19,207 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rade” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rade |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹeɪd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rade” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rade is uncommon English at frequency #80,789 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹeɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
rade has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is rade, spelled R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of road.
- 2raid
- 3ride; procession
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
FAIRY RADES: Another favored fairy activity is the rade, or ride, a procession of fairies on horseback. The fairy rade takes fairies into the land of the mortals. The most important rades occur on Midsummer Nght's Eve, the Summer Solstice, which occurs June 21 or 22.
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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