boa constrictor
"boa-constrictor" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boa constrictor” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A large tropical American snake, Boa constrictor, that kills its prey by squeezing them.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boa constrictor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boa constrictor” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
boa constrictor is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for boa constrictor, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from New Latin Boa constrictor. The correct English form is boa constrictor, spelled B-O-A- -C-O-N-S-T-R-I-C-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1A large tropical American snake, Boa constrictor, that kills its prey by squeezing them.
- 2Any large boa or python.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from New Latin Boa constrictor.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “boa constrictor”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-A- -C-O-N-S-T-R-I-C-T-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.