BOJ
"boj" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“BOJ” is uncommon English (frequency #61,323 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,323
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Bank of Japan; also BoJ.
Corpus desk
Index EN-boj · BOJ · English
BOJ · rank #61,323 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,323
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bluewater
Nearest frequency peer: bluewater (-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 “BOJ”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blistered
blistered
38,682 corpus weight
- blitzed
blitzed
38,681 corpus weight
- bluewater
bluewater
38,680 corpus weight
- BOJ
BOJ
38,678 corpus weight
- bottlenose
bottlenose
38,676 corpus weight
- brassy
brassy
38,675 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “BOJ” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BOJ |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “BOJ” in English
Rare enough to double-check
BOJ is uncommon English at frequency #61,323 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of Bank of Japan; also BoJ.".
BOJ doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is BOJ, spelled B-O-J.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Bank of Japan; also BoJ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BOJ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Goldman Sachs are among those gawping: “We view this decision as a major surprise, as we had expected any widening of the tolerable band to be made under the new BOJ leadership from spring next year, similar to the market.”
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).