Baptista
"baptista" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Baptista” is uncommon English (frequency #88,094 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,094
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from the Romance languages, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Corpus desk
Index EN-baptista · Baptista · English
Baptista · rank #88,094 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,094
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bajan
Nearest frequency peer: Bajan (-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 “Baptista”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bagman
bagman
11,911 corpus weight
- bahu
bahu
11,909 corpus weight
- Bajan
Bajan
11,908 corpus weight
- Baptista
Baptista
11,907 corpus weight
- Bareilly
Bareilly
11,906 corpus weight
- Barrell
Barrell
11,904 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Baptista” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baptista |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Baptista” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Baptista is uncommon English at frequency #88,094 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from the Romance languages, Spanish, or Portuguese.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Baptista, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Romance ( Spanish Baptista and Portuguese Baptista ). The correct English form is Baptista, spelled B-A-P-T-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from the Romance languages, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Etymology
From Romance ( Spanish Baptista and Portuguese Baptista ).
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).