ready
/ˈɹɛd.i/
"ready" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ready” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #532
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prepared for immediate action or use.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ready · ready · English
ready · rank #532 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #532
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH list
Nearest frequency peer: list (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ready”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- front
front
99,472 corpus weight
- kids
kids
99,471 corpus weight
- list
list
99,470 corpus weight
- ready
ready
99,469 corpus weight
- sometimes
sometimes
99,468 corpus weight
- son
son
99,467 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ready” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ready |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɹɛd.i/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ready” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ready (IPA /ˈɹɛd.i/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #532 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ready, with forms such as "erady", "raedy", and "readdy". 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, "red", "Rey", "real", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simpl… The correct English form is ready, spelled R-E-A-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Prepared for immediate action or use.
- 2Prepared for immediate action or use.
- 3Inclined; apt to happen.
- 4Liable at any moment.
- 5Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.
- 6Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ready appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I made ready to set out on my journey.
The troops are ready for battle.
Etymology
From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁dʰ-, *h₂reh₁- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy (“ready, prepared”), West Frisian ree (“ready”), Dutch gereed (“ready”), German bereit (“ready”), Danish rede (“ready”), Swedish redo (“ready, fit, prepared”), Norwegian reiug (“ready, prepared”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”).
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erady
- raedy
- readdy
- readyy
- reayd
- reday
- rready
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ready - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "ready" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "red". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #532 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "R" letter cohort. R–Z browse
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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.