boggy
/ˈbɑ.ɡi/
"boggy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boggy” is uncommon English (frequency #57,904 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,904
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-boggy · boggy · English
boggy · rank #57,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,904
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blooper
Nearest frequency peer: blooper (-3 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 “boggy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bitmap
bitmap
42,104 corpus weight
- blooper
blooper
42,100 corpus weight
- boggy
boggy
42,097 corpus weight
- booklist
booklist
42,094 corpus weight
- Bracknell
Bracknell
42,093 corpus weight
- breakable
breakable
42,091 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “boggy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boggy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbɑ.ɡi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “boggy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
boggy is uncommon English at frequency #57,904 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈbɑ.ɡi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.".
boggy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bog + -y. The correct English form is boggy, spelled B-O-G-G-Y.
Definition
- 1Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boggy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.
Offer a bulky and boggy bun to the suspected individual just ten minutes before dinner. If this is eagerly accepted and devoured, the fact of youth is established.
Etymology
From bog + -y.
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); 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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