rayed
"rayed" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rayed” is uncommon English (frequency #58,961 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,961
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of ray
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rayed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rayed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rayed is uncommon English at frequency #58,961 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of ray".
No misspelling variants are generated for rayed in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From ray + -ed. Piecewise doublet of radiused. The correct English form is rayed, spelled R-A-Y-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of ray
Etymology
From ray + -ed. Piecewise doublet of radiused.
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 “rayed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-A-Y-E-D - 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.