raver
"raver" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“raver” is uncommon English (frequency #76,256 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,256
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-raver · raver · English
raver · rank #76,256 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,256
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rathore
Nearest frequency peer: Rathore (-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 “raver”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ramzi
Ramzi
23,749 corpus weight
- Rathore
Rathore
23,746 corpus weight
- raver
raver
23,745 corpus weight
- recitative
recitative
23,743 corpus weight
- rectus
rectus
23,741 corpus weight
- reformat
reformat
23,738 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “raver” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raver |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “raver” in English
Rare enough to double-check
raver is uncommon English at frequency #76,256 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for raver, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English ravere, ravare, rafar, equivalent to rave + -er. The correct English form is raver, spelled R-A-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture.
- 2A person who raves or rants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The life of a superstar DJ sounds like one endless party. You get to travel the world, perform for thousands of scantily clad ravers, and earn a stack of money.
Ravers listen to technomusic at home, and some have commented that certain tracks of music can elicit ASC similar to the ones experienced at raves.
Etymology
From Middle English ravere, ravare, rafar, equivalent to rave + -er.
This word in other languages
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).