bachata
/bəˈt͡ʃɑːtə/
"bachata" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bachata” is uncommon English (frequency #67,231 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,231
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A genre of music originating in the Dominican Republic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bachata · bachata · English
bachata · rank #67,231 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,231
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH balancer
Nearest frequency peer: balancer (+2 rank slots)
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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.
Long-tail ranks near “bachata”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Assi
Assi
32,774 corpus weight
- bachata
bachata
32,770 corpus weight
- balancer
balancer
32,768 corpus weight
- Ballesteros
Ballesteros
32,767 corpus weight
- Barham
Barham
32,765 corpus weight
- basti
basti
32,763 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bachata” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bachata |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bəˈt͡ʃɑːtə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bachata” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bachata is uncommon English at frequency #67,231 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bəˈt͡ʃɑːtə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bachata, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Caribbean Spanish bachata (“party, good time”). The correct English form is bachata, spelled B-A-C-H-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1A genre of music originating in the Dominican Republic.
- 2A style of dance accompanying this music.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bachata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“All the time they complain about it,” said Rafael Batista, the owner of Quisqueya Records, a store whose list of new releases, in keeping with the neighborhood’s large Dominican population, is divided into merengue, salsa, balada and bachata.
From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Brooklyn’s own ReggaeLution band will perform, and at 9, D.J. Lumumba (a k a Revolution) will preside over an inclusive Caribbean dance party, from bachata to zouk and back again.
Etymology
From Caribbean Spanish bachata (“party, good time”).
This word in other languages
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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