bog down
"bog-down" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bog down” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To become stuck (as if in a bog) and unable to progress.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bog-down · bog down · English
bog down · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bog down |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bog down” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bog down is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bog down has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is bog down, spelled B-O-G- -D-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1To become stuck (as if in a bog) and unable to progress.
- 2To cause to become stuck and unable to progress.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bog down appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The play bogs down in narrative as we watch Max and Rudy flee Berlin.
DB wanted to start running in 2013, but couldn't get approval for the Velaro trains it wanted to run. It became bogged down in a process controlled by the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC), which includes the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.