raiment
/ˈɹeɪ.mənt/
"raiment" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“raiment” is uncommon English (frequency #87,732 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,732
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Clothing, garments, dress, material.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raiment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹeɪ.mənt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “raiment” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
raiment is uncommon English at frequency #87,732 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɹeɪ.mənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clothing, garments, dress, material.".
No misspelling variants are generated for raiment in our 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array. The correct English form is raiment, spelled R-A-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Clothing, garments, dress, material.
Etymology
Aphetized from Middle English arayment, borrowed from Anglo-Norman arraiement and Old French areement, from areer (“to array”). See array.
Synonyms
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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Using “raiment”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-A-I-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.