Bagram
"bagram" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bagram” is uncommon English (frequency #59,874 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,874
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town, the capital of the district of Bagram, Parwan Province, Afghanistan; the former capital of the Kushan Empire and the Kingdom of Kapisa.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bagram · Bagram · English
Bagram · rank #59,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,874
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH backhoe
Nearest frequency peer: backhoe (-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 “Bagram”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Augustinian
Augustinian
40,130 corpus weight
- backhanded
backhanded
40,129 corpus weight
- backhoe
backhoe
40,128 corpus weight
- Bagram
Bagram
40,127 corpus weight
- Bakar
Bakar
40,126 corpus weight
- Balearic
Balearic
40,125 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bagram” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bagram |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bagram” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bagram is uncommon English at frequency #59,874 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Bagram doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Persian and Pashto بگرام (Bagrām). The correct English form is Bagram, spelled B-A-G-R-A-M.
Definition
- 1A town, the capital of the district of Bagram, Parwan Province, Afghanistan; the former capital of the Kushan Empire and the Kingdom of Kapisa.
- 2A district of Parwan, Afghanistan, around the town.
Etymology
From Persian and Pashto بگرام (Bagrām).
Synonyms
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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