babysit
/ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/
"babysit" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“babysit” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,730. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,730
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babysit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “babysit” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around babysit (IPA /ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,730 among 31,241 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for babysit, with forms such as "abbysit", "babbysit", and "babsyit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Back-formation from babysitter. The correct English form is babysit, spelled B-A-B-Y-S-I-T.
Definition
- 1To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
- 2To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen.
- 3To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much.
Etymology
Back-formation from babysitter.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbysit,babbysit,babsyit,babyist,babysitt,babyssit,babysti,babyysit,baybsit,bbabysit,bbaysit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of babysit - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “babysit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-A-B-Y-S-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.