Bodrum
/ˈbəʊdɹʊm/
"bodrum" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bodrum” is uncommon English (frequency #73,007 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,007
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A port city in Muğla Province, in southwestern Turkey.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bodrum · Bodrum · English
Bodrum · rank #73,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,007
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 31,241
- PHOTO-FINISH boatswain
Nearest frequency peer: boatswain (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Bodrum”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- blowup
blowup
26,998 corpus weight
- bluer
bluer
26,997 corpus weight
- Blyton
Blyton
26,996 corpus weight
- boatswain
boatswain
26,995 corpus weight
- Bodrum
Bodrum
26,994 corpus weight
- bollard
bollard
26,991 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Bodrum” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bodrum |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈbəʊdɹʊm/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bodrum” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bodrum is uncommon English at frequency #73,007 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈbəʊdɹʊm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A port city in Muğla Province, in southwestern Turkey.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bodrum, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Turkish Bodrum, from Ottoman Turkish بودروم (Bodrum), from Latin Petronium. Doublet of Petronium. The correct English form is Bodrum, spelled B-O-D-R-U-M.
Definition
- 1A port city in Muğla Province, in southwestern Turkey.
Etymology
From Turkish Bodrum, from Ottoman Turkish بودروم (Bodrum), from Latin Petronium. Doublet of Petronium.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.