bedsheet
/ˈbɛdʃiːt/
"bedsheet" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bedsheet” is uncommon English (frequency #86,058 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,058
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bedsheet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɛdʃiːt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bedsheet” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bedsheet is uncommon English at frequency #86,058 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɛdʃiːt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bedsheet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bedeschette, bedshete, bed shete, equivalent to bed + sheet. The correct English form is bedsheet, spelled B-E-D-S-H-E-E-T.
Definition
- 1A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen.
Etymology
From Middle English bedeschette, bedshete, bed shete, equivalent to bed + sheet.
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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Using “bedsheet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-D-S-H-E-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.