baldrick
"baldrick" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baldrick” is uncommon English (frequency #97,827 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,827
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of baldric.
Corpus desk
Index EN-baldrick · baldrick · English
baldrick · rank #97,827 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,827
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Baia
Nearest frequency peer: Baia (-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 “baldrick”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bactrian
Bactrian
2,179 corpus weight
- Badenoch
Badenoch
2,178 corpus weight
- bads
bads
2,176 corpus weight
- Baia
Baia
2,175 corpus weight
- baldrick
baldrick
2,174 corpus weight
- Balkh
Balkh
2,173 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “baldrick” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baldrick |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “baldrick” in English
Rare enough to double-check
baldrick is uncommon English at frequency #97,827 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of baldric.".
baldrick doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 baldrick, spelled B-A-L-D-R-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of baldric.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baldrick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And the bright green belt on his body he bore, oblique, like a baldrick, bound at his side below his left shoulder, laced in a knot...
That a woman conceiv'd me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me.
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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