bok choy
/ˌbɒkˈt͡ʃɔɪ/
"bok-choy" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bok choy” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bok-choy · bok choy · English
bok choy · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bok choy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌbɒkˈt͡ʃɔɪ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bok choy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bok choy is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌbɒkˈt͡ʃɔɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bok choy in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Cantonese 白菜 (baak⁶ coi³, “white vegetable”). Doublet of pechay. The correct English form is bok choy, spelled B-O-K- -C-H-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bok choy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A new highway near Hong Kong has the right-of-way where a farmer now squeezes in a patch of bok choy. In the past decade development has overrun much of China's arable land.
Etymology
Borrowed from Cantonese 白菜 (baak⁶ coi³, “white vegetable”). Doublet of pechay.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.