wraiths
/ɹeɪθs/
"wraiths" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wraiths” is uncommon English (frequency #67,965 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,965
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of wraith
Corpus desk
Index EN-wraiths · wraiths · English
wraiths · rank #67,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,965
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wringer
Nearest frequency peer: wringer (+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 “wraiths”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wonk
wonk
32,040 corpus weight
- workbooks
workbooks
32,038 corpus weight
- wraiths
wraiths
32,036 corpus weight
- wringer
wringer
32,035 corpus weight
- wrinkling
wrinkling
32,034 corpus weight
- writeup
writeup
32,033 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wraiths” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wraiths |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹeɪθs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wraiths” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wraiths is uncommon English at frequency #67,965 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹeɪθs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of wraith".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for wraiths, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is wraiths, spelled W-R-A-I-T-H-S.
Definition
- 1plural of wraith
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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