boff
/bɒf/
"boff" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boff” is uncommon English (frequency #94,612 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,612
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
Corpus desk
Index EN-boff · boff · English
boff · rank #94,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,612
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bobsledder
Nearest frequency peer: bobsledder (-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 “boff”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blading
blading
5,398 corpus weight
- blazon
blazon
5,395 corpus weight
- bobsledder
bobsledder
5,390 corpus weight
- boff
boff
5,389 corpus weight
- boilermaker
boilermaker
5,388 corpus weight
- Bostic
Bostic
5,384 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “boff” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boff |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bɒf/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “boff” in English
Rare enough to double-check
boff is uncommon English at frequency #94,612 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /bɒf/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To have sexual intercourse with (someone).".
Zero misspellings are on record for boff in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is boff, spelled B-O-F-F.
Definition
- 1To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deke and LaVerne could go out to Cascade Lake together and plow the back forty all night; he would not be delighted with the knowledge that they were boffing each other's brains out, yet neither would he be surprised.
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.
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