Bagan
"bagan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bagan” is uncommon English (frequency #69,662 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,662
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in the Mandalay Region, Myanmar, formerly known as Pagan
Corpus desk
Index EN-bagan · Bagan · English
Bagan · rank #69,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,662
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Babington
Nearest frequency peer: Babington (-3 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.
Long-tail ranks near “Bagan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- axially
axially
30,345 corpus weight
- ayu
ayu
30,344 corpus weight
- Babington
Babington
30,342 corpus weight
- Bagan
Bagan
30,339 corpus weight
- Bajwa
Bajwa
30,336 corpus weight
- baler
baler
30,333 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bagan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bagan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bagan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bagan is uncommon English at frequency #69,662 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in the Mandalay Region, Myanmar, formerly known as Pagan".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bagan in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Burmese ပုဂံ (pu.gam). Doublet of Pagan. The correct English form is Bagan, spelled B-A-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1A town in the Mandalay Region, Myanmar, formerly known as Pagan
Etymology
Borrowed from Burmese ပုဂံ (pu.gam). Doublet of Pagan.
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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