Boehringer
"boehringer" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Boehringer” is uncommon English (frequency #80,258 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,258
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from German.
Corpus desk
Index EN-boehringer · Boehringer · English
Boehringer · rank #80,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,258
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blueline
Nearest frequency peer: blueline (-2 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 “Boehringer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Blaire
Blaire
19,750 corpus weight
- Blakeley
Blakeley
19,749 corpus weight
- Blalock
Blalock
19,748 corpus weight
- blueline
blueline
19,745 corpus weight
- Boehringer
Boehringer
19,743 corpus weight
- bradycardia
bradycardia
19,737 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Boehringer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Boehringer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Boehringer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Boehringer is uncommon English at frequency #80,258 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from German.".
Boehringer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Böhringer. The correct English form is Boehringer, spelled B-O-E-H-R-I-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Böhringer.
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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