boor
/bʊə/
"boor" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boor” is uncommon English (frequency #82,120 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,120
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A peasant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-boor · boor · English
boor · rank #82,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,120
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH boule
Nearest frequency peer: boule (+4 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 “boor”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bloodstone
bloodstone
17,888 corpus weight
- bluefish
bluefish
17,886 corpus weight
- boor
boor
17,881 corpus weight
- boule
boule
17,877 corpus weight
- boxcars
boxcars
17,876 corpus weight
- brakeman
brakeman
17,874 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “boor” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bʊə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “boor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
boor is uncommon English at frequency #82,120 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bʊə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
boor has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”). For the meaning development compare with Russian обыва́тель (obyvátelʹ, “the average man/citizen, the man in the street, philistine, resident, inhabitant”), Polish … The correct English form is boor, spelled B-O-O-R.
Definition
- 1A peasant.
- 2A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
- 3A yokel, country bumpkin.
- 4An uncultured person; a vulgarian.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I’ll swear it.
For all the rich array and goodly port and countenance of Corinius, he seemed but a very boor beside the Lord Brandoch Daha, and dearly did each hate the other.
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”). For the meaning development compare with Russian обыва́тель (obyvátelʹ, “the average man/citizen, the man in the street, philistine, resident, inhabitant”), Polish bydło (“cattle, rabble”) (whence Russian бы́дло (býdlo, “rabble, uncultured or stupid people, sheeple”)).
This word in other languages
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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