baselines
/ˈbeɪsˌlaɪnz/
"baselines" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baselines” is uncommon English (frequency #68,033 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,033
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of baseline
Corpus desk
Index EN-baselines · baselines · English
baselines · rank #68,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,033
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Batson
Nearest frequency peer: Batson (+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 “baselines”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- backwardness
backwardness
31,974 corpus weight
- baselines
baselines
31,968 corpus weight
- Batson
Batson
31,967 corpus weight
- beanies
beanies
31,966 corpus weight
- Belial
Belial
31,964 corpus weight
- bellicose
bellicose
31,963 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “baselines” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baselines |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbeɪsˌlaɪnz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “baselines” in English
Rare enough to double-check
baselines is uncommon English at frequency #68,033 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbeɪsˌlaɪnz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of baseline".
No generated misspelling entries exist for baselines in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is baselines, spelled B-A-S-E-L-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of baseline
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).