Bathsheba
/bæθˈʃiːbə/
"bathsheba" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bathsheba” is uncommon English (frequency #63,441 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,441
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In the Old Testament, the wife of Uriah and later of David.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bathsheba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /bæθˈʃiːbə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bathsheba” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bathsheba is uncommon English at frequency #63,441 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /bæθˈʃiːbə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bathsheba, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew בַּת שֶׁבַע (bat shéva', “daughter of an oath”), from בַּת (bát, “daughter”) + שֶׁבַע (shéva, “oath”). The correct English form is Bathsheba, spelled B-A-T-H-S-H-E-B-A.
Definition
- 1In the Old Testament, the wife of Uriah and later of David.
- 2A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
- 3A village in Saint Joseph parish, Barbados.
- 4A ghost town in Oklahoma, United States, a short-lived female colony.
Etymology
From Hebrew בַּת שֶׁבַע (bat shéva', “daughter of an oath”), from בַּת (bát, “daughter”) + שֶׁבַע (shéva, “oath”).
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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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- The one correct English spelling is B-A-T-H-S-H-E-B-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.