Rattray
/ɹæ(t).tɹeɪ/
"rattray" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rattray” is uncommon English (frequency #85,688 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,688
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A small town and former burgh, now a part of the town of Blairgowrie and Rattray, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO1845).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rattray |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɹæ(t).tɹeɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rattray” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Rattray is uncommon English at frequency #85,688 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ɹæ(t).tɹeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Rattray 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Pictish, probably equivalent to Welsh rhawdd (“fortress”) + tref (“village”). The correct English form is Rattray, spelled R-A-T-T-R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A small town and former burgh, now a part of the town of Blairgowrie and Rattray, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO1845).
- 2A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic from the place name.
Etymology
From Pictish, probably equivalent to Welsh rhawdd (“fortress”) + tref (“village”).
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 “Rattray”
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- The one correct English spelling is R-A-T-T-R-A-Y - 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.