bismillah

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"bismillah" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“bismillah” is uncommon English (frequency #86,073 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,073
frequency rank, English
31,241
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.

Key facts for bismillah
PropertyValue
Headwordbismillah
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechInterjection
Letters9
Frequency rank#86,073
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “bismillah” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). bismillah lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bismillah is uncommon English at frequency #86,073 among 31,241 “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

  1. 1
    Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bismillah"?
"bismillah" is spelled B-I-S-M-I-L-L-A-H.
What does "bismillah" mean?
As an interjection, "bismillah" means: Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.
What language does "bismillah" come from?
"bismillah" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “bismillah”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is B-I-S-M-I-L-L-A-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list