Bahia
\ba.ja\
The verdict
“Bahia” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,899
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État du nord-est du Brésil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bahia · Bahia · French
Bahia · rank #25,899 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,899
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bade
Nearest frequency peer: bade (-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 « Bahia »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avides
avides
74,105 corpus weight
- Aymeric
Aymeric
74,104 corpus weight
- bade
bade
74,103 corpus weight
- Bahia
Bahia
74,102 corpus weight
- bavure
bavure
74,100 corpus weight
- Beauregard
Beauregard
74,099 corpus weight
What this shows « Bahia » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Bahia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.ja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bahia »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Bahia (IPA \ba.ja\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,899 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État du nord-est du Brésil.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bahia, with forms such as "abhia", "bahai", and "bahhia". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bai", "bain", "baie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Bahia, spelled B-A-H-I-A.
Definition
- 1État du nord-est du Brésil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bahia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beaucoup de dévotes les imitèrent, ainsi qu'une brigade de mulheres da capona, ces femmes qui sévissaient dans tout le Nordeste, entre le Pernambouc, le Maranhão et la Bahia, fagotées comme l’as de pique, ou plutôt emmaillotées dans des jupes, des caracos, des peaux de chats ou de chiens, des chandails et des vieilleries.
Il avait souhaité ne pas avoir à écourter ses vacances à la mer pour se rendre dans l’État de Bahia sinistré par des inondations meurtrières à la fin de l’année.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abhia
- bahai
- bahhia
- baiha
- bbahia
- bhaia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bahia - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).