badlands
/ˈbæd.lændz/
"badlands" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“badlands” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,620. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,620
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
Corpus desk
Index EN-badlands · badlands · English
badlands · rank #35,620 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,620
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 31,241
- PHOTO-FINISH bari
Nearest frequency peer: bari (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “badlands”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Azhar
Azhar
64,384 corpus weight
- badlands
badlands
64,381 corpus weight
- bari
bari
64,380 corpus weight
- baronet
baronet
64,379 corpus weight
- BDO
BDO
64,376 corpus weight
- bearish
bearish
64,375 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “badlands” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badlands |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæd.lændz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “badlands” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around badlands (IPA /ˈbæd.lændz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,620 among 31,241 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for badlands, with forms such as "abdlands", "badalnds", and "baddlands". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makȟóšiča (from makȟá (“land”) + o- (attributive prefix) + šíča (“bad”)). The correct English form is badlands, spelled B-A-D-L-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
Etymology
From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makȟóšiča (from makȟá (“land”) + o- (attributive prefix) + šíča (“bad”)).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abdlands
- badalnds
- baddlands
- badladns
- badlandds
- badlandss
- badlannds
- badlansd
- badllands
- badlnads
- baldands
- bbadlands
- bdalands
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of badlands - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "badlands", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
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.