bashes
/ˈbæʃɪz/
"bashes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bashes” is uncommon English (frequency #52,801 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,801
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of bash
Corpus desk
Index EN-bashes · bashes · English
bashes · rank #52,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,801
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH barret
Nearest frequency peer: barret (-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 “bashes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- barged
barged
47,203 corpus weight
- barony
barony
47,202 corpus weight
- barret
barret
47,201 corpus weight
- bashes
bashes
47,200 corpus weight
- bata
bata
47,199 corpus weight
- BEM
BEM
47,198 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bashes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bashes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæʃɪz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bashes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bashes is uncommon English at frequency #52,801 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbæʃɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of bash".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bashes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is bashes, spelled B-A-S-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of bash
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).