bathes
/beɪðz/
"bathes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bathes” is uncommon English (frequency #59,215 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,215
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of bathe
Corpus desk
Index EN-bathes · bathes · English
bathes · rank #59,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,215
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Battista
Nearest frequency peer: Battista (+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 “bathes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- avo
avo
40,792 corpus weight
- ballooned
ballooned
40,790 corpus weight
- bathes
bathes
40,786 corpus weight
- Battista
Battista
40,785 corpus weight
- beachhead
beachhead
40,784 corpus weight
- befallen
befallen
40,783 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bathes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bathes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /beɪðz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bathes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bathes is uncommon English at frequency #59,215 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /beɪðz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of bathe".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bathes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 bathes, spelled B-A-T-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of bathe
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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