Boh
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The verdict
“Boh” is uncommon German (frequency #95,355 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,355
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-boh · Boh · German
Boh · rank #95,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,355
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bodenplatten
Nearest frequency peer: Bodenplatten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Boh“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- blumigen
blumigen
4,650 corpus weight
- BNE
BNE
4,648 corpus weight
- Bodenplatten
Bodenplatten
4,647 corpus weight
- Boh
Boh
4,646 corpus weight
- bomba
bomba
4,645 corpus weight
- Borgholzhau…
Borgholzhausen
4,643 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Boh“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Boh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #95,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Boh“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Boh is uncommon German at frequency #95,355 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "männlicher Vorname".
Zero misspellings are on record for Boh in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Boh, spelled B-O-H.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Boh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Am liebsten verbringt Boh seine Freizeit mit Wattwanderungen.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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