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bath

UK [bɑːθ]noun, verb

bath is spelled B-A-T-H: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “bath vs bathe” about 1,000 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, bath means “A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bath is baths.

How many letters and syllables are in bath?

Letters4: B-A-T-H
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing28 times per million words; the 3,364th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is bath?

Bath appears 28 times per million words in written English, the 3,364th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce bath?

  • /bɑːθ/
  • UK [bɑːθ]
  • [bäːt̪ʰ]

Bath has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-bath.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with bath

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

bath vs bathe1,000 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with bath?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as bath.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: baht.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of bath

  • baths plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • bathing participle, present
  • bathed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does bath mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.

  2. 2

    A building or area where bathing occurs.

  3. 3

    informalClipping of bathroom.

    The master bath has two sinks.

  4. 4

    The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.

  5. 5

    Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this.

    Do you prefer baths or showers?

  6. 6

    An act of immersing the body in a specified substance, especially for hygiene, pleasure, or wellness, or a facility for this: e.g. mud bath, steam bath.

  7. 7

    The body of liquid one bathes in.

  8. 8

    A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

    a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air

  9. 9

    A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).

    Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be aft

verb

  1. 1

    CommonwealthTo wash a person or animal in a bath.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthinformalTo bathe (oneself); to have a bath.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Bath in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbain, baignoire (tub), salle de bains (building or area where bathing occurs), baigner (to wash in a bath)
GermanBadewanne (tub), Bad (building or area where bathing occurs), baden (to wash in a bath), Baden (act of bathing)
Portuguesebanheira (tub), banheiro (building or area where bathing occurs), banhar (to wash in a bath), banho (act of bathing)
Spanishbañera (tub), cuarto de baño, baño (building or area where bathing occurs), bañar (to wash in a bath)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does bath come from?

From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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