Baldur
"baldur" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Baldur” is uncommon English (frequency #94,558 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,558
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.
Corpus desk
Index EN-baldur · Baldur · English
Baldur · rank #94,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,558
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH ballsack
Nearest frequency peer: ballsack (+2 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 “Baldur”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bacchanal
bacchanal
5,448 corpus weight
- backstabber
backstabber
5,447 corpus weight
- Baldur
Baldur
5,443 corpus weight
- ballsack
ballsack
5,441 corpus weight
- Balogun
Balogun
5,440 corpus weight
- Bardstown
Bardstown
5,437 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Baldur” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baldur |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Baldur” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Baldur is uncommon English at frequency #94,558 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.".
Baldur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Baldur, spelled B-A-L-D-U-R.
Definition
- 1The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Baldur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But the fate of Baldur, the most amiable and beloved of Asa gods, is, we think, by far the most pleasing of the Scandinavian Myths, although less characteristic of the warlike temper just mentioned than some of the others.
In the god Baldur the legend recognizes the god of the earth-sun, the earth force. No being of the earth can approach him with hostility. Hence also the god whom the German legend knew to be a straggler, namely Loki, cannot kill Baldur with anything belonging to the earth; he has to kill him with a branch of mistletoe, because this is a stranger among the…
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).