Bahamas
[baˈamas]
The verdict
“Bahamas” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,451. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,451
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archipiélago conformado por 24 islas habitadas, 600 deshabitadas y más de 2 000 peñascos y escollos. Se ubica en el océano Atlántico, al este de Florida (Estados Unidos de América), al norte de Cub...
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Index ES-bahamas · Bahamas · Spanish
Bahamas · rank #18,451 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,451
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bancada
Nearest frequency peer: bancada (+1 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Bahamas”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- atrasado
atrasado
81,554 corpus weight
- atropello
atropello
81,553 corpus weight
- Bahamas
Bahamas
81,550 corpus weight
- bancada
bancada
81,549 corpus weight
- basurero
basurero
81,548 corpus weight
- batallones
batallones
81,547 corpus weight
What this shows “Bahamas” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | Bahamas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [baˈamas] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Bahamas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Bahamas (IPA [baˈamas]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,451 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bahamas, with forms such as "abhamas", "baahmas", and "bahaams". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "bahías", "basadas", "bajamos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Bahamas, spelled B-A-H-A-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1Archipiélago conformado por 24 islas habitadas, 600 deshabitadas y más de 2 000 peñascos y escollos. Se ubica en el océano Atlántico, al este de Florida (Estados Unidos de América), al norte de Cuba y al oeste de las Islas Turcas y Caicos.
- 2País ubicado en el archipiélago anterior.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abhamas
- baahmas
- bahaams
- bahamass
- bahammas
- bahamsa
- bahhamas
- bahmaas
- bbahamas
- bhaamas
- vahamas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bahamas - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bahamas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).