rath
/ɹɑːθ/
"rath" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rath” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,411
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rath · rath · English
rath · rank #40,411 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,411
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Reade
Nearest frequency peer: Reade (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “rath”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- punctuality
punctuality
59,594 corpus weight
- purring
purring
59,593 corpus weight
- rath
rath
59,590 corpus weight
- Reade
Reade
59,589 corpus weight
- recuperate
recuperate
59,586 corpus weight
- Remi
Remi
59,585 corpus weight
What this shows “rath” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rath |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹɑːθ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rath”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around rath (IPA /ɹɑːθ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,411 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for rath, with forms such as "arth", "raht", and "rathh". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RH", "ray", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Old Irish ráth. The correct English form is rath, spelled R-A-T-H.
Definition
- 1A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rath appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.
Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arth
- raht
- rathh
- ratth
- rrath
- rtah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rath - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rath", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).