baptismal font
/bæpˈtɪzməl ˈfɑnt/
"baptismal-font" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baptismal font” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A large basin used for baptism in or near a church.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baptismal font |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bæpˈtɪzməl ˈfɑnt/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baptismal font” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
baptismal font is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /bæpˈtɪzməl ˈfɑnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large basin used for baptism in or near a church.".
baptismal font doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is baptismal font, spelled B-A-P-T-I-S-M-A-L- -F-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1A large basin used for baptism in or near a church.
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.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-A-P-T-I-S-M-A-L- -F-O-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.