bailie
"bailie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bailie” is uncommon English (frequency #74,748 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,748
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A bailiff.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bailie · bailie · English
bailie · rank #74,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,748
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bago
Nearest frequency peer: Bago (-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 “bailie”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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axing
25,259 corpus weight
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backbencher
25,256 corpus weight
- Bago
Bago
25,254 corpus weight
- bailie
bailie
25,253 corpus weight
- ballplayer
ballplayer
25,252 corpus weight
- Bartlesville
Bartlesville
25,248 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bailie” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bailie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bailie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bailie is uncommon English at frequency #74,748 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bailie, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French bailli (“land steward; officer of justice”). The correct English form is bailie, spelled B-A-I-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1A bailiff.
- 2The chief magistrate of a Scottish barony or part of a county, with functions like a sheriff's.
- 3A municipal officer in Scotland corresponding to an English alderman.
Etymology
From Old French bailli (“land steward; officer of justice”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).