Baath
/bɑːθ/
"baath" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Baath” is uncommon English (frequency #83,022 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,022
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab socialist political party present in several countries in the Middle East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.
Corpus desk
Index EN-baath · Baath · English
Baath · rank #83,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,022
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 31,241
- PHOTO-FINISH Bachelet
Nearest frequency peer: Bachelet (+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 “Baath”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Aylward
Aylward
16,981 corpus weight
- Baath
Baath
16,979 corpus weight
- Bachelet
Bachelet
16,978 corpus weight
- backbreaking
backbreaking
16,977 corpus weight
- backscatter
backscatter
16,976 corpus weight
- badman
badman
16,975 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Baath” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baath |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /bɑːθ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Baath” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Baath is uncommon English at frequency #83,022 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /bɑːθ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab socialist political party present in several countries in the Middle East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Baath in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Arabic بَعْث (baʕṯ, “resurrection”), part of the party's official name, حِزْب البَعْث العَرَبِيّ الاِشْتِرَاكِيّ (ḥizb al-baʕṯ al-ʕarabiyy al-ištirākiyy, literally “the party of the Arab socialist resurrection”). The sequence ــَعْـ (aʿ) is often rende… The correct English form is Baath, spelled B-A-A-T-H.
Definition
- 1The Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab socialist political party present in several countries in the Middle East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.
Etymology
From Arabic بَعْث (baʕṯ, “resurrection”), part of the party's official name, حِزْب البَعْث العَرَبِيّ الاِشْتِرَاكِيّ (ḥizb al-baʕṯ al-ʕarabiyy al-ištirākiyy, literally “the party of the Arab socialist resurrection”). The sequence ــَعْـ (aʿ) is often rendered as ⟨aa⟩ in English; compare Baalbek for بَعْلَبَكّ (baʕlabakk), the Kaaba for الكَعْبَة (al-kaʕba), Saad (name) for سَعْد (saʕd), or zaatar for زَعْتَر (zaʕtar).
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.