bole
/bol/noun
bole is spelled B-O-L-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bole means “The trunk or stem of a tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bole is boles.
How many letters and syllables are in bole?
| Letters | 4: B-O-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 59,387th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is bole?
Bole appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce bole?
- US /bol/
- UK /bəʊl/
- UK /bɒʊl/
Bole has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-bowl.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with bole
Sounds like: bowl (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: boll.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with bole?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bole from its last stressed vowel (/ol/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: lobe.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of bole
- boles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bole mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The trunk or stem of a tree.
- 2
Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
- 3
The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- 4
obsoleteA bolus; a dose.
- 5
ScotlandAn aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- 6
ScotlandA small closet.
- 7
Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bole in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the trunk or stem of a tree:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bole come from?
From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).