bismillah
"bismillah" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bismillah” is uncommon English (frequency #86,073 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,073
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bismillah · bismillah · English
bismillah · rank #86,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,073
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH biopharma
Nearest frequency peer: biopharma (-2 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 “bismillah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- binational
binational
13,932 corpus weight
- biopharma
biopharma
13,930 corpus weight
- bismillah
bismillah
13,928 corpus weight
- Blighty
Blighty
13,926 corpus weight
- blud
blud
13,923 corpus weight
- Boldt
Boldt
13,921 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bismillah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bismillah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bismillah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bismillah is uncommon English at frequency #86,073 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bismillah in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is bismillah, spelled B-I-S-M-I-L-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bismillah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Finally, the boy told the king that he would succeed only if he gathered all his citizens as witnesses, declared bismillah rab al-gholam—“in the name of Allah, the God of this boy”—and fired an arrow.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).