baddies
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "baddies", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "baddies" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "baddies" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
baddies is aEnglishnoun. It means: plural of baddie Pronounced /ˈbædiz/. Often confused with bodies and buddies.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baddies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbædiz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for baddies is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbædiz/. Corpus data places it at rank #39,691 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of baddie".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for baddies, with forms such as "abddies", "baddeis", and "baddiess". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bodies", "buddies", "babies", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is baddies, spelled B-A-D-D-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1plural of baddie
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abddies,baddeis,baddiess,baddise,badides,badies,bbaddies,bdadies
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Misspelling Variants of "baddies"
Frequency rank: #39,691 in English
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