Babylonia
/ˌbæbɪˈləʊnɪə/
"babylonia" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Babylonia” is uncommon English (frequency #50,952 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,952
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An ancient empire and geographic region of Mesopotamia, existing from 1850 BCE to 539 BCE, based around the city of Babylon; at its maximum extent, covering parts of modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Babylonia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌbæbɪˈləʊnɪə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Babylonia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Babylonia is uncommon English at frequency #50,952 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌbæbɪˈləʊnɪə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Babylonia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin Babylōnia, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλωνία (Babulōnía), from Βαβυλων (Babulōn, “Babylon”) + -ία (-ía, forming place names for areas). By surface analysis, Babylon + -ia. The correct English form is Babylonia, spelled B-A-B-Y-L-O-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1An ancient empire and geographic region of Mesopotamia, existing from 1850 BCE to 539 BCE, based around the city of Babylon; at its maximum extent, covering parts of modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Iran.
- 2A geographic area equivalent to Mesopotamia, from the area of Babylon's empire at its maximum extent.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Babylōnia, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλωνία (Babulōnía), from Βαβυλων (Babulōn, “Babylon”) + -ία (-ía, forming place names for areas). By surface analysis, Babylon + -ia.
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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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Using “Babylonia”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-A-B-Y-L-O-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.