bogart
"bogart" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bogart” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,459. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,459
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bogart · bogart · English
bogart · rank #31,459 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,459
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bobbi
Nearest frequency peer: Bobbi (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “bogart”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Belo
Belo
68,546 corpus weight
- Bilbao
Bilbao
68,545 corpus weight
- Bobbi
Bobbi
68,543 corpus weight
- bogart
bogart
68,542 corpus weight
- bragged
bragged
68,541 corpus weight
- brainwashing
brainwashing
68,540 corpus weight
What this shows “bogart” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bogart |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bogart”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bogart, anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,459 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bogart, with forms such as "bbogart", "bgoart", and "boagrt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "boat", "Bart", "boar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From actor Humphrey Bogart, from Dutch surname Bogaard (“keeper of an orchard”), from boomgaard (“treegarden, orchard”), cognate to English boom (“piece of wood”)/beam + garden. Senses of selfishness and excess evolved from the original 1960s use meaning “k… The correct English form is bogart, spelled B-O-G-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bogart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And it's not even going to share with you?? What a Bogart!!! LOL
What a bogart... Hey, share some of the wealth, buddy
Etymology
From actor Humphrey Bogart, from Dutch surname Bogaard (“keeper of an orchard”), from boomgaard (“treegarden, orchard”), cognate to English boom (“piece of wood”)/beam + garden. Senses of selfishness and excess evolved from the original 1960s use meaning “keep a joint in the mouth instead of passing it on”, recalling the actor’s signature practice of keeping a cigarette dangling from his mouth even while speaking. Other senses of “bullying” or “tough guy” also originated in the 1960s and recall the actor’s various movie roles. Another potential origin of the vernacular comes from Humphrey Bogart's role in the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) in which his character, Dobbs, becomes increasingly selfish with the gold mine that he shares with his two partners. Or it could be from The Big Sleep (1946) in which Lauren Bacall lights a cigarette for him while he is tied up, forcing him to dangle the cigarette from his lips for the rest of the scene. According to an interview with "The Fraternity of Man" bandmember Lawrence "Stash" Wagner, he "got down on my knees and begged" the ABC record label to put their song "Don't Bogart That Joint" on a single, agreeing to change the title to "Don't Bogart Me." On the origin on the song, he said, "The band was smoking some pot in our rehearsal house up in Laurel Canyon, when Elliot [Ingber] turned to me and said, 'Hey man, don’t bogart that thing.' I asked him, what does ‘bogart’ mean? He said, “You know, like Humphrey Bogart always had a cigarette in his hand or hanging from his lips when talking. Well, you were hanging onto that joint while your lips were flapping.' I said, 'Cool, we should write a song using Bogart.'" Source.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbogart
- bgoart
- boagrt
- bogarrt
- bogartt
- bogatr
- boggart
- bograt
- obgart
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bogart - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
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