Bahamas
\ba.a.mas\
The verdict
“Bahamas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,405. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,405
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays des Antilles, situé dans l’océan Atlantique et constitué d’un archipel de 700 îles environ, bordé maritimement par les États-Unis à l’ouest-nord-ouest, Cuba au sud, Haïti et le territoire brit...
Corpus desk
Index FR-bahamas · Bahamas · French
Bahamas · rank #18,405 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,405
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baignade
Nearest frequency peer: baignade (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bahamas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aus
aus
81,600 corpus weight
- avoine
avoine
81,598 corpus weight
- Bahamas
Bahamas
81,596 corpus weight
- baignade
baignade
81,595 corpus weight
- basiques
basiques
81,594 corpus weight
- baux
baux
81,593 corpus weight
What this shows « Bahamas » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bahamas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.a.mas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bahamas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Bahamas (IPA \ba.a.mas\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,405 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays des Antilles, situé dans l’océan Atlantique et constitué d’un archipel de 700 îles environ, bordé maritimement par les États-Unis à l’ouest-nord-ouest, Cuba au sud, Haïti et le territoire brit...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bahamas, with forms such as "abhamas", "baahmas", and "bahaams". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Bahamas, spelled B-A-H-A-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pays des Antilles, situé dans l’océan Atlantique et constitué d’un archipel de 700 îles environ, bordé maritimement par les États-Unis à l’ouest-nord-ouest, Cuba au sud, Haïti et le territoire britannique des îles Turques et Caïques au sud-est. Sa capitale est Nassau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bahamas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il aime les Bahamas.
Elle va aux Bahamas.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abhamas
- baahmas
- bahaams
- bahamass
- bahammas
- bahamsa
- bahhamas
- bahmaas
- bbahamas
- bhaamas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bahamas - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bahamas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).