raiment
/ˈɹeɪ.mənt/obsolete
raiment is spelled R-A-I-M-E-N-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, raiment means “Clothing, garments, dress, material” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of raiment is raiments.
How many letters and syllables are in raiment?
| Letters | 7: R-A-I-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 87,317th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is raiment?
Raiment appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce raiment?
- /ˈɹeɪ.mənt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-raiment.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with raiment?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as raiment.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: minaret, meranti.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does raiment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
archaicClothing, garments, dress, material.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does raiment come from?
Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).