badass
/ˈbædæs/
"badass" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“badass” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,987
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior.
Corpus desk
Index EN-badass · badass · English
badass · rank #10,987 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,987
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH backward
Nearest frequency peer: backward (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “badass”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- backward
backward
89,015 corpus weight
- badass
badass
89,014 corpus weight
- barred
barred
89,013 corpus weight
- beck
beck
89,012 corpus weight
- bingo
bingo
89,011 corpus weight
- blogging
blogging
89,010 corpus weight
What this shows “badass” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badass |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbædæs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “badass”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around badass (IPA /ˈbædæs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,987 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for badass, with forms such as "abdass", "baadss", and "badas". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bass", "brass", "bypass", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bad + ass (“buttocks; one's self or person”). The correct English form is badass, spelled B-A-D-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior.
- 2A person considered impressive due to courage, skill, daring, audacity, and/or toughness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how badass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Don’t mess with that guy, he’s a real badass.
A shake down officer, Sgt. Soaper, and Capt. Swarts, have been reading all my mail, including GCN (which is authorized to come in). Soaper has been sending the prison bad-asses to my cell to force me to have sex with them. Yesterday, Soaper opened my door and 2 prisoners came in and raped me. Capt. Swarts told me that he was going to make me pay for writi…
Etymology
From bad + ass (“buttocks; one's self or person”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abdass
- baadss
- badas
- baddass
- badsas
- bbadass
- bdaass
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of badass - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "badass", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).