rapey
/ˈɹeɪpi/
"rapey" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rapey” is uncommon English (frequency #82,707 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,707
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sexually aggressive or inappropriate in a way that causes fear or unease.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rapey · rapey · English
rapey · rank #82,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,707
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rangeland
Nearest frequency peer: rangeland (-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 “rapey”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- radian
radian
17,299 corpus weight
- railgun
railgun
17,296 corpus weight
- rangeland
rangeland
17,295 corpus weight
- rapey
rapey
17,294 corpus weight
- Rastafari
Rastafari
17,293 corpus weight
- ratu
ratu
17,291 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rapey” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɹeɪpi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rapey” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rapey is uncommon English at frequency #82,707 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈɹeɪpi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rapey, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From rape + -y. The correct English form is rapey, spelled R-A-P-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Sexually aggressive or inappropriate in a way that causes fear or unease.
- 2Suggestive of, or characterised by, rape.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rapey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This song is pretty rapey if you think about the lyrics.
If this all sounds a bit “rapey,” that's only because there were different standards of morality back in the days of Greek mythology.
Etymology
From rape + -y.
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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