bathers
"bathers" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bathers” is uncommon English (frequency #58,540 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,540
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of bather
Corpus desk
Index EN-bathers · bathers · English
bathers · rank #58,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,540
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH beek
Nearest frequency peer: beek (+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 “bathers”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Banach
Banach
41,466 corpus weight
- Barbuda
Barbuda
41,465 corpus weight
- Barents
Barents
41,464 corpus weight
- bathers
bathers
41,461 corpus weight
- beek
beek
41,459 corpus weight
- begat
begat
41,457 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bathers” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bathers |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bathers” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bathers is uncommon English at frequency #58,540 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bathers, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Abbreviation of bathing suit. The correct English form is bathers, spelled B-A-T-H-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of bather
- 2A swimsuit; a bathing costume.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bathers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The bathers they wore looked sort of the same as now, but their hair was really different.
No one here wore bathers. Both boys wore their homemade underpants, the brand name, ‘Sydney Flour’, emblazoned across the back, as old flour bags were not wasted, but recycled.
Etymology
Abbreviation of bathing suit.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).