boozehound
"boozehound" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boozehound” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alcoholic, drunkard
Corpus desk
Index EN-boozehound · boozehound · English
boozehound · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boozehound |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “boozehound” in English
Rare enough to double-check
boozehound is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "alcoholic, drunkard".
No generated misspelling entries exist for boozehound in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From booze + hound. The correct English form is boozehound, spelled B-O-O-Z-E-H-O-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1alcoholic, drunkard
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boozehound appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A 47-year-old, nondescript boozehound who once programmed computers for the French government, Houellebecq is an unlikely choice as either a literary lion or sacrificial lamb.
He was also an irresponsible boozehound who habitually ran out on the check in restaurants, even though he must have known it was the waitress who had to pay the bill for such dine-and-dash customers.
Etymology
From booze + hound.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.