boorish
/ˈbʊəɹɪʃ/
"boorish" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boorish” is an uncommon English word, ranked #62,727 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #62,727
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boorish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbʊəɹɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boorish” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for boorish is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbʊəɹɪʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #62,727 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.".
Zero misspellings are on record for boorish in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From boor + -ish. The correct English form is boorish, spelled B-O-O-R-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.
Etymology
From boor + -ish.
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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Using “boorish”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-O-R-I-S-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.