baker's
"baker-s" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baker's” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,733. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,733
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Slightly supernumerary; a little more than. (Derived from baker's dozen.)
Corpus desk
Index EN-baker-s · baker's · English
baker's · rank #27,733 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,733
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bagels
Nearest frequency peer: bagels (-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's”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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72,271 corpus weight
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72,269 corpus weight
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72,268 corpus weight
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72,267 corpus weight
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72,266 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “baker's” 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's |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baker's” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around baker's, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,733 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Slightly supernumerary; a little more than. (Derived from baker's dozen.)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for baker's, with forms such as "abker's", "baekr's", and "bake'rs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bakes", "bakery", "Bakers", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is baker's, spelled B-A-K-E-R-'-S.
Definition
- 1Slightly supernumerary; a little more than. (Derived from baker's dozen.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baker's appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A baker's half-dozen of the best sorts, of proven merit, are Festiva maxima, the finest white; Couronne d'Or, a very late-flowering white; Felix Crousse, brilliant red; Mme. Crousse, white and crimson; Duchess de Nemours, sulphur white and fragrant; Marie Lemoine, ivory white; Delicatissima, crimson purple.
[…] thirty, a baker's twenty-eight, presumably. We were all delighted, particularly the baker and the guide, the former refusing money.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abker's
- baekr's
- bake'rs
- baker'ss
- bakerr's
- bakers'
- bakker's
- bakre's
- bbaker's
- bkaer's
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baker's - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "baker's" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "bakes". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #27,733 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.