Bohol
/boˈhol/
"bohol" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bohol” is uncommon English (frequency #64,219 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,219
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A province of Central Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tagbilaran.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bohol |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /boˈhol/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bohol” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bohol is uncommon English at frequency #64,219 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /boˈhol/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Bohol in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Bohol, from Cebuano Bohol. The correct English form is Bohol, spelled B-O-H-O-L.
Definition
- 1A province of Central Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tagbilaran.
- 2An island of Central Visayas, Visayas, Philippines.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Bohol, from Cebuano Bohol.
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 “Bohol”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-H-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.