Baphomet
/ˈbæfəmɛt/
"baphomet" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Baphomet” is uncommon English (frequency #87,052 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,052
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that the Knights Templar worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.
Corpus desk
Index EN-baphomet · Baphomet · English
Baphomet · rank #87,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,052
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bastia
Nearest frequency peer: Bastia (+5 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 “Baphomet”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- auric
auric
12,958 corpus weight
- autor
autor
12,957 corpus weight
- Baphomet
Baphomet
12,949 corpus weight
- Bastia
Bastia
12,944 corpus weight
- bazin
bazin
12,942 corpus weight
- beardless
beardless
12,940 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Baphomet” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baphomet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæfəmɛt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Baphomet” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Baphomet is uncommon English at frequency #87,052 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈbæfəmɛt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that the Knights Templar worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Baphomet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin Baphometh, deriving from Occitan Bafometz. Ostensibly a corruption of Andalusian Arabic مَحُمَّدْ (“Maḥummad”), ultimately deriving from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad) (compare Old Catalan Mafumet and Old Galician-Portuguese Mafomat), which … The correct English form is Baphomet, spelled B-A-P-H-O-M-E-T.
Definition
- 1A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that the Knights Templar worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Baphometh, deriving from Occitan Bafometz. Ostensibly a corruption of Andalusian Arabic مَحُمَّدْ (“Maḥummad”), ultimately deriving from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad) (compare Old Catalan Mafumet and Old Galician-Portuguese Mafomat), which would make it a doublet of mammet and Muhammad. Other sources have been suggested.
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); 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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