bobsled
"bobsled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bobsled” is uncommon English (frequency #57,252 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,252
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sled used to go down a bob track.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bobsled · bobsled · English
bobsled · rank #57,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,252
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bluesy
Nearest frequency peer: bluesy (-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 “bobsled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blanking
blanking
42,753 corpus weight
- bloop
bloop
42,751 corpus weight
- bluesy
bluesy
42,750 corpus weight
- bobsled
bobsled
42,749 corpus weight
- bonk
bonk
42,748 corpus weight
- Botticelli
Botticelli
42,746 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bobsled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bobsled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bobsled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bobsled is uncommon English at frequency #57,252 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bobsled in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is bobsled, spelled B-O-B-S-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1A sled used to go down a bob track.
- 2The sport of travelling down a bob track as fast as possible.
- 3A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; the compound sled so formed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bobsled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
W. D. Howells The long wagon body set on bobsleds.
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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