baker
/ˈbeɪ.kə(ɹ)/
"baker" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baker” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,824
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
Corpus desk
Index EN-baker · baker · English
baker · rank #4,824 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,824
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH backing
Nearest frequency peer: backing (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “baker”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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asset
95,180 corpus weight
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95,179 corpus weight
- backing
backing
95,178 corpus weight
- baker
baker
95,177 corpus weight
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95,176 corpus weight
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95,175 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “baker” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbeɪ.kə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baker” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around baker (IPA /ˈbeɪ.kə(ɹ)/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,824 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for baker, with forms such as "abker", "baekr", and "bakerr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bar", "ber", "base", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“bak… The correct English form is baker, spelled B-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
- 2A portable oven for baking.
- 3An apple suitable for baking.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abker
- baekr
- bakerr
- bakker
- bakre
- bbaker
- bkaer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baker - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "baker", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "baker" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "bar". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,824 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "B" letter cohort. B–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.