bellhop
/ˈbɛlˌhɒp/
"bellhop" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bellhop” is uncommon English (frequency #96,771 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,771
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An employee of a hotel who carries a guest's luggage and runs errands.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bellhop · bellhop · English
bellhop · rank #96,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,771
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH beachcomber
Nearest frequency peer: beachcomber (-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 “bellhop”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- beachcomber
beachcomber
3,231 corpus weight
- bellhop
bellhop
3,230 corpus weight
- Bergoglio
Bergoglio
3,228 corpus weight
- Bessarabia
Bessarabia
3,227 corpus weight
- Bethpage
Bethpage
3,226 corpus weight
- billingsgate
billingsgate
3,224 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bellhop” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bellhop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɛlˌhɒp/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bellhop” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bellhop is uncommon English at frequency #96,771 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɛlˌhɒp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An employee of a hotel who carries a guest's luggage and runs errands.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bellhop in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Shortening of bellhopper. The correct English form is bellhop, spelled B-E-L-L-H-O-P.
Definition
- 1An employee of a hotel who carries a guest's luggage and runs errands.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bellhop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now, the bellhop's tears keep flowin' And the desk clerk's dressed in black. Well, they've been so long on Lonely Street Well, they'll never, they'll never look back.
Etymology
Shortening of bellhopper.
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).