bobbed
"bobbed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bobbed” is uncommon English (frequency #60,661 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,661
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a bob haircut.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bobbed · bobbed · English
bobbed · rank #60,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,661
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bludgeon
Nearest frequency peer: bludgeon (-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 “bobbed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bloomers
bloomers
39,343 corpus weight
- bludgeon
bludgeon
39,341 corpus weight
- bobbed
bobbed
39,340 corpus weight
- bobblehead
bobblehead
39,339 corpus weight
- Bolling
Bolling
39,337 corpus weight
- bonobo
bonobo
39,335 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bobbed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bobbed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bobbed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bobbed is uncommon English at frequency #60,661 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having a bob haircut.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bobbed in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is bobbed, spelled B-O-B-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a bob haircut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bobbed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The demand for special combs for bobbed hair […]
In a typical example from 1924, the BIZ published a photograph of a young, bobbed woman wearing an oversized bow tie and neat mustache, accompanied by the “horrific news” from a North American fashion guru that “[w]hen one does not permit hair to flourish on the head, it will grow on the face and body. The ladies will grow mustaches.”
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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