bated
/ˈbeɪtɪd/
"bated" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bated” is uncommon English (frequency #64,201 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,201
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Reduced; lowered; restrained
Corpus desk
Index EN-bated · bated · English
bated · rank #64,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,201
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH baud
Nearest frequency peer: baud (+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 “bated”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- badgering
badgering
35,805 corpus weight
- Bakken
Bakken
35,804 corpus weight
- baptizing
baptizing
35,803 corpus weight
- Barossa
Barossa
35,802 corpus weight
- bated
bated
35,800 corpus weight
- baud
baud
35,799 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bated” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbeɪtɪd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bated” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bated is uncommon English at frequency #64,201 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈbeɪtɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Reduced; lowered; restrained".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bated, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is bated, spelled B-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Reduced; lowered; restrained
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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