Bohol
/boˈhol/
"bohol" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bohol” is uncommon English (frequency #64,219 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,219
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A province of Central Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Tagbilaran.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bohol · Bohol · English
Bohol · rank #64,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,219
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH biostatistics
Nearest frequency peer: biostatistics (-2 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 “Bohol”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bhabhi
Bhabhi
35,788 corpus weight
- Bihari
Bihari
35,787 corpus weight
- billabong
billabong
35,786 corpus weight
- biostatisti…
biostatistics
35,784 corpus weight
- Bohol
Bohol
35,782 corpus weight
- bougie
bougie
35,777 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bohol” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Bohol” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bohol is uncommon English at frequency #64,219 among 4,121 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bohol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.
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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