Bajan
/ˈbeɪd͡ʒən/
"bajan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bajan” is uncommon English (frequency #88,093 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,093
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Barbadian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bajan · Bajan · English
Bajan · rank #88,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,093
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bahu
Nearest frequency peer: bahu (-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 “Bajan”
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 “Bajan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bajan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbeɪd͡ʒən/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bajan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bajan is uncommon English at frequency #88,093 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbeɪd͡ʒən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Barbadian.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bajan in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: A clipping of Bar-Bajan, a phonetically spelled form of Barbadian. The correct English form is Bajan, spelled B-A-J-A-N.
Definition
- 1A Barbadian.
Etymology
A clipping of Bar-Bajan, a phonetically spelled form of Barbadian.
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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