baz
"baz" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,533) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,533
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-baz · baz · English
baz · rank #33,533 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,533
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH basking
Nearest frequency peer: basking (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “baz”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Bahia
Bahia
66,472 corpus weight
- banal
banal
66,470 corpus weight
- basking
basking
66,469 corpus weight
- baz
baz
66,468 corpus weight
- befitting
befitting
66,466 corpus weight
- benched
benched
66,465 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “baz” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “baz”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for baz is neighbouring look-alikes ("be", "by", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #33,533 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Gloss: "A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar.".
Zero misspellings are on record for baz in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "be", "by", "BC", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is baz, spelled B-A-Z.
Definition
- 1A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suppose we have three objects, foo, bar and baz.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "baz", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).