eba
"eba" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eba” is uncommon English (frequency #52,915 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,915
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.
Corpus desk
Index EN-eba · eba · English
eba · rank #52,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,915
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Egbert
Nearest frequency peer: Egbert (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “eba”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- droopy
droopy
47,093 corpus weight
- dunce
dunce
47,089 corpus weight
- eba
eba
47,086 corpus weight
- Egbert
Egbert
47,084 corpus weight
- Elmhurst
Elmhurst
47,081 corpus weight
- elope
elope
47,080 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “eba” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #52,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eba” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
eba is uncommon English at frequency #52,915 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.".
No misspelling variants are generated for eba in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Yoruba ẹ̀bà. The correct English form is eba, spelled E-B-A.
Definition
- 1A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how eba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I don’t grumble, even though eba clings to surfaces, especially wooden ones, like superglue.
Etymology
From Yoruba ẹ̀bà.
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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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.