Bolles
"bolles" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bolles” is uncommon English (frequency #79,319 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,319
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from German.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bolles · Bolles · English
Bolles · rank #79,319 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,319
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bocelli
Nearest frequency peer: Bocelli (-1 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 “Bolles”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bloodstock
bloodstock
20,686 corpus weight
- blued
blued
20,685 corpus weight
- Bocelli
Bocelli
20,683 corpus weight
- Bolles
Bolles
20,682 corpus weight
- boma
boma
20,681 corpus weight
- bonbon
bonbon
20,680 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bolles” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bolles |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bolles” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bolles is uncommon English at frequency #79,319 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from German.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bolles, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Bolles or Bölles. The correct English form is Bolles, spelled B-O-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1A surname from German.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Bolles or Bölles.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).