bedtime
/ˈbɛdtaɪm/
"bedtime" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bedtime” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,668
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bedtime · bedtime · English
bedtime · rank #13,668 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,668
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Baxter
Nearest frequency peer: Baxter (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “bedtime”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- barbie
barbie
86,336 corpus weight
- batter
batter
86,335 corpus weight
- Baxter
Baxter
86,334 corpus weight
- bedtime
bedtime
86,333 corpus weight
- belongings
belongings
86,332 corpus weight
- Bloomberg
Bloomberg
86,331 corpus weight
What this shows “bedtime” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | bedtime |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɛdtaɪm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bedtime”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bedtime (IPA /ˈbɛdtaɪm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,668 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bedtime, with forms such as "bbedtime", "bdetime", and "beddtime". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Bertie", "bestie", "bedside", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bedtyme, bed-tyme, bedetyme, bedde tyme, equivalent to bed + time. Compare earlier Old English bedtīd (“bedtime”). Compare also West Frisian bêdtiid (“bedtime”), Dutch bedtijd (“bedtime”), Saterland Frisian Bädegungenstied (“bedtime”, li… The correct English form is bedtime, spelled B-E-D-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bedtime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I read every evening, sometimes late into the night, with the help of kerosene lamps, often secretly, past my bedtime.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
Etymology
From Middle English bedtyme, bed-tyme, bedetyme, bedde tyme, equivalent to bed + time. Compare earlier Old English bedtīd (“bedtime”). Compare also West Frisian bêdtiid (“bedtime”), Dutch bedtijd (“bedtime”), Saterland Frisian Bädegungenstied (“bedtime”, literally “bed-goings-time”), German Low German Beddgahnstied, Bettgahnstiet (“bedtime”, literally “bed-goings-time”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbedtime
- bdetime
- beddtime
- beditme
- bedtiem
- bedtimme
- bedtmie
- bedttime
- betdime
- ebdtime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bedtime - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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