bogue
/boʊɡ/
"bogue" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bogue” is an uncommon English word, ranked #73,917 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #73,917
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bogue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /boʊɡ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bogue” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for bogue is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /boʊɡ/. Corpus data places it at rank #73,917 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).".
No misspelling variants are generated for bogue in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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: Related to Spanish boga (“a ray-finned fish; Leporinus obtusidens”), from Late Latin bōca, bōx; Box vulgaris is an older name for Boops boops. Compare the obsolete term boce for this fish. The correct English form is bogue, spelled B-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).
Etymology
Related to Spanish boga (“a ray-finned fish; Leporinus obtusidens”), from Late Latin bōca, bōx; Box vulgaris is an older name for Boops boops. Compare the obsolete term boce for this fish.
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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Using “bogue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-G-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /boʊɡ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.