# bats vs BDS

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### bats
*noun · IPA /bæts/ · frequency rank #9,286*
plural of bat

### BDS
*name · frequency rank #26,691*
Initialism of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (academic qualification to practise dentistry in the UK and most of the Commonwealth except Canada)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bats-vs-bds