basted
/ˈbeɪstɪd/
"basted" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“basted” is uncommon English (frequency #99,009 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,009
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of baste
Corpus desk
Index EN-basted · basted · English
basted · rank #99,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,009
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Barclaycard
Nearest frequency peer: Barclaycard (-3 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 “basted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Baraboo
Baraboo
996 corpus weight
- Barclaycard
Barclaycard
995 corpus weight
- basted
basted
992 corpus weight
- beatitude
beatitude
987 corpus weight
- Beith
Beith
985 corpus weight
- bejesus
bejesus
984 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “basted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | basted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbeɪstɪd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “basted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
basted is uncommon English at frequency #99,009 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈbeɪstɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of baste".
Zero misspellings are on record for basted in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is basted, spelled B-A-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of baste
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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