Badakhshan
"badakhshan" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Badakhshan” is uncommon English (frequency #92,363 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,363
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A historical region comprising parts of what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Badakhshan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Badakhshan” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Badakhshan is uncommon English at frequency #92,363 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Badakhshan, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Persian بدخشان (badaxšân), from Middle Persian title 𐭡𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭩 (btḥšy /badaxš/); see it for more. The correct English form is Badakhshan, spelled B-A-D-A-K-H-S-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1A historical region comprising parts of what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan.
- 2A province of Afghanistan, named after the historical region.
- 3Gorno-Badakhshan (an autonomous province of Tajikistan).
Etymology
From Persian بدخشان (badaxšân), from Middle Persian title 𐭡𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭩 (btḥšy /badaxš/); see it for more.
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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Using “Badakhshan”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-A-D-A-K-H-S-H-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.