Bastille
/bæˈstiːl/
"bastille" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bastille” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,375. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,375
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bastille · Bastille · English
Bastille · rank #27,375 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,375
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Barbour
Nearest frequency peer: Barbour (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Bastille”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Atwood
Atwood
72,631 corpus weight
- Barbour
Barbour
72,627 corpus weight
- Bastille
Bastille
72,626 corpus weight
- belligerent
belligerent
72,625 corpus weight
- bleaching
bleaching
72,622 corpus weight
- bleeds
bleeds
72,621 corpus weight
What this shows “Bastille” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bastille |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /bæˈstiːl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Bastille”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Bastille (IPA /bæˈstiːl/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,375 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bastille, with forms such as "abstille", "basitlle", and "basstille". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Bastille, from bastille (“fortress”): see further at the English entry bastille. The building was known in full as the Bastille Saint-Antoine, and was a former fortress used as a prison by the French monarchy in the 17th and 18th centur… The correct English form is Bastille, spelled B-A-S-T-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Bastille, from bastille (“fortress”): see further at the English entry bastille. The building was known in full as the Bastille Saint-Antoine, and was a former fortress used as a prison by the French monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abstille
- basitlle
- basstille
- bastile
- bastilel
- bastlile
- basttille
- batsille
- bbastille
- bsatille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bastille - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).