baking soda

noun

"baking-soda" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“baking soda” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sodium bicarbonate.

Corpus desk

Index EN-baking-soda · baking soda · English

baking soda · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for baking soda
PropertyValue
Headwordbaking soda
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “baking soda” in English

baking sodaranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

baking soda is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sodium bicarbonate.".

baking soda doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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: From its use in baking. The correct English form is baking soda, spelled B-A-K-I-N-G- -S-O-D-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sodium bicarbonate.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how baking soda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Holonyms: baking powder, soda bread

Etymology

From its use in baking.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baking soda"?
"baking soda" is spelled B-A-K-I-N-G- -S-O-D-A.
What does "baking soda" mean?
As a noun, "baking soda" means: Sodium bicarbonate.
What is the origin of the word "baking soda"?
From its use in baking. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list