bandh
"bandh" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bandh” is uncommon English (frequency #93,433 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,433
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bandh · bandh · English
bandh · rank #93,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,433
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH banksia
Nearest frequency peer: banksia (+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 “bandh”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Baldacci
Baldacci
6,572 corpus weight
- Balle
Balle
6,570 corpus weight
- bandh
bandh
6,568 corpus weight
- banksia
banksia
6,567 corpus weight
- bankside
bankside
6,566 corpus weight
- banky
banky
6,565 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bandh” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bandh” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bandh is uncommon English at frequency #93,433 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bandh in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindi बंध (bandh, “closure”), from Sanskrit बन्ध (bandha). Doublet of bund (“a type of enclosure”). The correct English form is bandh, spelled B-A-N-D-H.
Definition
- 1A general strike, shutdown, or other form of protest used in South Asia in which a substantial portion of the population stays home and does not report to work.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bandh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The impending course of events and the patterns of violence could have readily been foreseen after the incident in Godhra, and particularly after the VHP's declaration of a state-wide bandh, both by the city's residents and government authorities […]
A week-long bandh was in progress. People had nothing to do.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi बंध (bandh, “closure”), from Sanskrit बन्ध (bandha). Doublet of bund (“a type of enclosure”).
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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