Bastia
/ˈbæstiə/
"bastia" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bastia” is uncommon English (frequency #87,057 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,057
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town and port, the capital of the department of Upper Corsica, Corsica, France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bastia · Bastia · English
Bastia · rank #87,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,057
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bazin
Nearest frequency peer: bazin (+2 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 “Bastia”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Baphomet
Baphomet
12,949 corpus weight
- Bastia
Bastia
12,944 corpus weight
- bazin
bazin
12,942 corpus weight
- beardless
beardless
12,940 corpus weight
- beefsteak
beefsteak
12,938 corpus weight
- befit
befit
12,937 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bastia” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Bastia” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bastia is uncommon English at frequency #87,057 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈbæstiə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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