baccarat
/ˈbækəɹɑː/
"baccarat" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baccarat” is uncommon English (frequency #54,633 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,633
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms, usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt, and also bearing some similarities to blackjack.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baccarat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbækəɹɑː/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baccarat” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
baccarat is uncommon English at frequency #54,633 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbækəɹɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms, usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt, and also bearing some similarities to blackjack.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for baccarat, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in the 19th century. Borrowed from French baccarat, baccara, likely named after the French town Baccarat (noted for glassmaking) in Grand Est, of ultimately unclear and debated origin (first attested in 1291. (uncertain)). If by some Vulgar L… The correct English form is baccarat, spelled B-A-C-C-A-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms, usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt, and also bearing some similarities to blackjack.
Etymology
First attested in the 19th century. Borrowed from French baccarat, baccara, likely named after the French town Baccarat (noted for glassmaking) in Grand Est, of ultimately unclear and debated origin (first attested in 1291. (uncertain)). If by some Vulgar Latin *Bacchara, the town is possibly named from Latin Bacchi ara ("altar of Bacchus"; the original pagan reference of the name was forgotten), name of an ancient Roman castellum, of which there remains a relic called the "Tower of Bacha" on the heights of Deneuvre, from whence Baccarat is an ancient suburb. Other hypotheses have also been suggested, including descent from Celtic. Probably linked to Provençal baccara, although if the town etymology is correct, this may present some geographic difficulty.
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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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- The one correct English spelling is B-A-C-C-A-R-A-T - 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.