bogue
/boʊɡ/
"bogue" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bogue” is uncommon English (frequency #73,917 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,917
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).
Corpus desk
Index EN-bogue · bogue · English
bogue · rank #73,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,917
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bodacious
Nearest frequency peer: bodacious (-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 “bogue”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Blois
Blois
26,088 corpus weight
- Bluey
Bluey
26,087 corpus weight
- Boda
Boda
26,086 corpus weight
- bodacious
bodacious
26,085 corpus weight
- bogue
bogue
26,084 corpus weight
- Botton
Botton
26,082 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bogue” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “bogue” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bogue is uncommon English at frequency #73,917 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /boʊɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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