bonhams
"bonhams" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bonhams” is uncommon English (frequency #91,307 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,307
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of bonham
Corpus desk
Index EN-bonhams · bonhams · English
bonhams · rank #91,307 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,307
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Boileau
Nearest frequency peer: Boileau (-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 “bonhams”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blunting
blunting
8,700 corpus weight
- blusher
blusher
8,699 corpus weight
- Boileau
Boileau
8,696 corpus weight
- bonhams
bonhams
8,694 corpus weight
- bookbinder
bookbinder
8,692 corpus weight
- Bosse
Bosse
8,690 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bonhams” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonhams |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bonhams” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bonhams is uncommon English at frequency #91,307 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of bonham".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bonhams, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is bonhams, spelled B-O-N-H-A-M-S.
Definition
- 1plural of bonham
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bonhams appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was selling a litter of 12 bonhams half-covered with straw.
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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