baloney
/bəˈləʊni/
"baloney" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“baloney” is uncommon English (frequency #51,556 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,556
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of sausage; bologna.
Corpus desk
Index EN-baloney · baloney · English
baloney · rank #51,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,556
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Balenciaga
Nearest frequency peer: Balenciaga (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “baloney”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- autofocus
autofocus
48,450 corpus weight
- Baghdadi
Baghdadi
48,448 corpus weight
- Balenciaga
Balenciaga
48,446 corpus weight
- baloney
baloney
48,445 corpus weight
- banister
banister
48,443 corpus weight
- banque
banque
48,442 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “baloney” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baloney |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bəˈləʊni/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “baloney” in English
Rare enough to double-check
baloney is uncommon English at frequency #51,556 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bəˈləʊni/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of sausage; bologna.".
baloney has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Phonetic spelling of bologna. The correct English form is baloney, spelled B-A-L-O-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1A type of sausage; bologna.
Etymology
Phonetic spelling of bologna.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).