American bison
/əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈbaɪ̯sən/
"american-bison" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“American bison” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A bovine mammal, a species of bison, Bison bison, endemic to North America.
Corpus desk
Index EN-american-bison · American bison · English
American bison · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | American bison |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈbaɪ̯sən/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “American bison” in English
Rare enough to double-check
American bison is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈbaɪ̯sən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A bovine mammal, a species of bison, Bison bison, endemic to North America.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for American bison, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is American bison, spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N- -B-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1A bovine mammal, a species of bison, Bison bison, endemic to North America.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how American bison appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the year 1521, when Cortez reached Anahuac, the American bison was seen for the first time by civilized Europeans, if we may be permitted to thus characterize the horde of blood thirsty plunder seekers who fought their way to the Aztec capital.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.