sing the praises of
"sing-the-praises-of" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sing the praises of” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - to commend (someone or something’s) attributes to others
Corpus desk
Index EN-sing-the-praises-of · sing the praises of · English
sing the praises of · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sing the praises of |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sing the praises of” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sing the praises of is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "to commend (someone or something’s) attributes to others".
No misspelling variants are generated for sing the praises of in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is sing the praises of, spelled S-I-N-G- -T-H-E- -P-R-A-I-S-E-S- -O-F.
Definition
- 1to commend (someone or something’s) attributes to others
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sing the praises of appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything li…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.