bellboy
/ˈbɛlˌbɔɪ/
"bellboy" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bellboy” is uncommon English (frequency #95,736 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,736
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male worker, usually at a hotel, who carries luggage and runs errands.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bellboy · bellboy · English
bellboy · rank #95,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,736
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Behringer
Nearest frequency peer: Behringer (-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 “bellboy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- beary
beary
4,270 corpus weight
- Beatlemania
Beatlemania
4,269 corpus weight
- Behringer
Behringer
4,266 corpus weight
- bellboy
bellboy
4,265 corpus weight
- beno
beno
4,262 corpus weight
- Bhagwat
Bhagwat
4,259 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bellboy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bellboy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɛlˌbɔɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bellboy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bellboy is uncommon English at frequency #95,736 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɛlˌbɔɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male worker, usually at a hotel, who carries luggage and runs errands.".
bellboy has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bell + boy. The correct English form is bellboy, spelled B-E-L-L-B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1A male worker, usually at a hotel, who carries luggage and runs errands.
Etymology
From bell + boy.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).