Bolshevism
/ˈbɒlʃəˌvɪz(ə)m/
"bolshevism" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bolshevism” is uncommon English (frequency #55,966 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,966
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The strategy used by the Bolsheviks in attempting to gain power in Russia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bolshevism |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɒlʃəˌvɪz(ə)m/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bolshevism” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bolshevism is uncommon English at frequency #55,966 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbɒlʃəˌvɪz(ə)m/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Bolshevism in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian большеви́зм (bolʹševízm, “Bolshevism”), from большинство (bolʹšinstvo, “majority, most”) (referring to the fact that the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party won on the majority of the important issues at the… The correct English form is Bolshevism, spelled B-O-L-S-H-E-V-I-S-M.
Definition
- 1The strategy used by the Bolsheviks in attempting to gain power in Russia.
- 2The Communist political ideology adopted by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Marxism-Leninism.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian большеви́зм (bolʹševízm, “Bolshevism”), from большинство (bolʹšinstvo, “majority, most”) (referring to the fact that the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party won on the majority of the important issues at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903) + -и́зм (-ízm, “-ism”, suffix forming the names of systems, schools of thought or theories based on the names of their subjects or objects). большинство is derived from большо́й (bolʹšój, “great, large”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bel-) + -ство (-stvo, suffix forming a neuter noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, quality or state) (from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo (suffix forming nouns denoting a condition or state)).
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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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- The one correct English spelling is B-O-L-S-H-E-V-I-S-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.