Bayeux
/baɪˈjɜː/
"bayeux" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bayeux” is uncommon English (frequency #59,885 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,885
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in Calvados department, Normandy, France; noted for the Bayeux Tapestry.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bayeux · Bayeux · English
Bayeux · rank #59,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,885
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH beautician
Nearest frequency peer: beautician (+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 “Bayeux”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- baste
baste
40,120 corpus weight
- Batangas
Batangas
40,118 corpus weight
- Bayeux
Bayeux
40,116 corpus weight
- beautician
beautician
40,115 corpus weight
- beckon
beckon
40,114 corpus weight
- beget
beget
40,113 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bayeux” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bayeux |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /baɪˈjɜː/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bayeux” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bayeux is uncommon English at frequency #59,885 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /baɪˈjɜː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in Calvados department, Normandy, France; noted for the Bayeux Tapestry.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Bayeux, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Bayeux, from Old French Baios, Baieus, from Late Latin Baiocae, from Latin Baiocassī, from Gaulish *Bodiocasses (a tribe name, literally “blond curls”) (compare Old Irish buidechass). Compare the surrounding region of Bessin (Old French… The correct English form is Bayeux, spelled B-A-Y-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1A town in Calvados department, Normandy, France; noted for the Bayeux Tapestry.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Bayeux, from Old French Baios, Baieus, from Late Latin Baiocae, from Latin Baiocassī, from Gaulish *Bodiocasses (a tribe name, literally “blond curls”) (compare Old Irish buidechass). Compare the surrounding region of Bessin (Old French Beissin), from Late Latin (pagus) Baiocassīnus.
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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