Ibadan
"ibadan" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ibadan” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,182
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the state capital of Oyo State, Nigeria.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ibadan · Ibadan · English
Ibadan · rank #36,182 · 8 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,182
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH icebreaker
Nearest frequency peer: icebreaker (+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 “Ibadan”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Houdini
Houdini
63,823 corpus weight
- hybridizati…
hybridization
63,822 corpus weight
- Ibadan
Ibadan
63,819 corpus weight
- icebreaker
icebreaker
63,818 corpus weight
- idling
idling
63,817 corpus weight
- idolatry
idolatry
63,816 corpus weight
What this shows “Ibadan” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ibadan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Ibadan”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Ibadan, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,182 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A city, the state capital of Oyo State, Nigeria.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ibadan, with forms such as "biadan", "iabdan", and "ibaadn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Yoruba Ìbàdàn. The correct English form is Ibadan, spelled I-B-A-D-A-N.
Definition
- 1A city, the state capital of Oyo State, Nigeria.
Etymology
From Yoruba Ìbàdàn.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- biadan
- iabdan
- ibaadn
- ibadann
- ibaddan
- ibadna
- ibbadan
- ibdaan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ibadan - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).