booze

/buːz/

//buːz// noun

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"booze" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“booze” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,012. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,012
frequency rank, English
4,121
“B” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any alcoholic beverage.

Corpus desk

Index EN-booze · booze · English

booze · rank #12,012 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,012
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,121
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bombay

Nearest frequency peer: Bombay (-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.

Rank peers near misspelling magnet “booze”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “booze” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

booze vs bore
60% similar
booze vs Bose
40% similar
booze vs boyz
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for booze
PropertyValue
Headwordbooze
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/buːz/
Letters5
Frequency rank#12,012
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “booze”

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).boozelands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “Bombay” (#12,011), “Brennan” (#12,013), “Bolton” (#12,010). Among 4,121 “B” headwords, “booze” is #12,012. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around booze (IPA /buːz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,012 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for booze, with forms such as "bbooze", "booez", and "boozze". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bore", "Bose", "boyz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Etymologically, the entry records: Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse. The correct English form is booze, spelled B-O-O-Z-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Any alcoholic beverage.
  2. 2
    Any alcoholic beverage.
  3. 3
    A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how booze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.
  2. 1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars She got caught between the shadows and the booze And she surely did know how to have the blues

Etymology

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

Synonyms

grogalcoholic beverage

This word in other languages

trago(Español)bibine(Français)Schnaps(Deutsch)bebida(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbooze
  • booez
  • boozze
  • boze
  • bozoe
  • oboze

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of booze - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

bbooze1booez2boozze1boze1bozoe2oboze2
Edit distance from "booze"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "booze"?
"booze" is spelled B-O-O-Z-E. The IPA pronunciation is /buːz/.
What does "booze" mean?
As a noun, "booze" means: Any alcoholic beverage.
What words are commonly confused with "booze"?
"booze" is commonly confused with "bore", "Bose", "boyz". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "booze"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "booze" is /buːz/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What is the origin of the word "booze"?
Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "booze", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Bronx#12,014basil#12,008chord#12,019Clare#12,020

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

dang6 variantstilt6 variantsspur6 variantsfuzzy6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list