badman
"badman" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“badman” is uncommon English (frequency #83,026 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,026
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history.
Corpus desk
Index EN-badman · badman · English
badman · rank #83,026 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,026
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 31,241
- PHOTO-FINISH backscatter
Nearest frequency peer: backscatter (-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 “badman”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Baath
Baath
16,979 corpus weight
- Bachelet
Bachelet
16,978 corpus weight
- backbreaking
backbreaking
16,977 corpus weight
- backscatter
backscatter
16,976 corpus weight
- badman
badman
16,975 corpus weight
- balrog
balrog
16,971 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “badman” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “badman” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
badman is uncommon English at frequency #83,026 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for badman in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bad + man. The correct English form is badman, spelled B-A-D-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A violence-prone man who has had run-ins with the law; especially one from the Old West days of U.S. history.
- 2A gangster.
Etymology
From bad + man.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.