bahu
"bahu" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bahu” is uncommon English (frequency #88,092 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,092
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A daughter-in-law or sister-in-law, especially one who lives with her husband's family when married.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bahu · bahu · English
bahu · rank #88,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,092
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bajan
Nearest frequency peer: Bajan (+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 “bahu”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- badmouth
badmouth
11,912 corpus weight
- bagman
bagman
11,911 corpus weight
- bahu
bahu
11,909 corpus weight
- Bajan
Bajan
11,908 corpus weight
- Baptista
Baptista
11,907 corpus weight
- Bareilly
Bareilly
11,906 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bahu” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bahu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bahu” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bahu is uncommon English at frequency #88,092 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A daughter-in-law or sister-in-law, especially one who lives with her husband's family when married.".
bahu has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindi बहू (bahū) / Urdu بَہُو (bahū), from Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́). The correct English form is bahu, spelled B-A-H-U.
Definition
- 1A daughter-in-law or sister-in-law, especially one who lives with her husband's family when married.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi बहू (bahū) / Urdu بَہُو (bahū), from Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).