BID
"bid" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“BID” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,601) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,601
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - twice a day, two times per day
Corpus desk
Index EN-bid · BID · English
BID · rank #3,601 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,601
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH AP
Nearest frequency peer: AP (-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 “BID”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- alliance
alliance
96,403 corpus weight
- annoying
annoying
96,402 corpus weight
- AP
AP
96,401 corpus weight
- BID
BID
96,400 corpus weight
- bro
bro
96,399 corpus weight
- buddy
buddy
96,398 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “BID” 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 | BID |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “BID”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BID is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BS", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #3,601 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Gloss: "twice a day, two times per day".
BID has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BS", "bo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin bis in diē. The correct English form is BID, spelled B-I-D.
Definition
- 1twice a day, two times per day
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BID appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It has been repeatedly documented that moving patients from a TID dosing regimen to BID or OD vastly improves compliance, and thus the medicine's effectiveness.
Etymology
From Latin bis in diē.
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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