bagpipe
/ˈbæɡˌpaɪp/
"bagpipe" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bagpipe” is uncommon English (frequency #62,692 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,692
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - singular of bagpipes
Corpus desk
Index EN-bagpipe · bagpipe · English
bagpipe · rank #62,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,692
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH baguettes
Nearest frequency peer: baguettes (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “bagpipe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- athletically
athletically
37,314 corpus weight
- attenuate
attenuate
37,313 corpus weight
- Ayub
Ayub
37,311 corpus weight
- bagpipe
bagpipe
37,309 corpus weight
- baguettes
baguettes
37,308 corpus weight
- barbera
barbera
37,306 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bagpipe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bagpipe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæɡˌpaɪp/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bagpipe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bagpipe is uncommon English at frequency #62,692 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbæɡˌpaɪp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bagpipe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is bagpipe, spelled B-A-G-P-I-P-E.
Definition
- 1singular of bagpipes
- 2Attributive form of bagpipes.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).