wrasse
/ɹæs/
"wrasse" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wrasse” is uncommon English (frequency #89,030 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,030
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-wrasse · wrasse · English
wrasse · rank #89,030 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,030
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 12,113
- PHOTO-FINISH wittle
Nearest frequency peer: wittle (-3 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 “wrasse”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wildfowl
wildfowl
10,978 corpus weight
- Winterton
Winterton
10,976 corpus weight
- wittle
wittle
10,974 corpus weight
- wrasse
wrasse
10,971 corpus weight
- yod
yod
10,966 corpus weight
- Yokota
Yokota
10,965 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wrasse” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wrasse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹæs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wrasse” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wrasse is uncommon English at frequency #89,030 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹæs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are ...".
wrasse has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh. The correct English form is wrasse, spelled W-R-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored.
Etymology
Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh.
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.
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 May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.