bathymetric
"bathymetric" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bathymetric” is uncommon English (frequency #91,274 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,274
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bathymetric · bathymetric · English
bathymetric · rank #91,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,274
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Batesville
Nearest frequency peer: Batesville (-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 “bathymetric”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Barcroft
Barcroft
8,734 corpus weight
- basa
basa
8,731 corpus weight
- basketry
basketry
8,730 corpus weight
- Batesville
Batesville
8,728 corpus weight
- bathymetric
bathymetric
8,727 corpus weight
- Battersby
Battersby
8,725 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bathymetric” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bathymetric |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bathymetric” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bathymetric is uncommon English at frequency #91,274 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.".
bathymetric has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bathy- + -metric. The correct English form is bathymetric, spelled B-A-T-H-Y-M-E-T-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
Etymology
From bathy- + -metric.
This word in other languages
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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