Bastia
/ˈbæstiə/
"bastia" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bastia” is an uncommon English word, ranked #87,057 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #87,057
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and port, the capital of the department of Upper Corsica, Corsica, France.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bastia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæstiə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bastia” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Bastia is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbæstiə/. Corpus data places it at rank #87,057 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A town and port, the capital of the department of Upper Corsica, Corsica, France.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Bastia in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Bastia, spelled B-A-S-T-I-A.
Definition
- 1A town and port, the capital of the department of Upper Corsica, Corsica, France.
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); 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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Using “Bastia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-A-S-T-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbæstiə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.