borscht
/bɔːʃt/
"borscht" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“borscht” is uncommon English (frequency #69,694 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,694
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its countries of origin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-borscht · borscht · English
borscht · rank #69,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,694
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bourg
Nearest frequency peer: Bourg (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “borscht”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blowhard
blowhard
30,311 corpus weight
- bluntness
bluntness
30,310 corpus weight
- bocce
bocce
30,309 corpus weight
- borscht
borscht
30,307 corpus weight
- Bourg
Bourg
30,306 corpus weight
- boxwood
boxwood
30,304 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “borscht” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borscht |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɔːʃt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “borscht” in English
Rare enough to double-check
borscht is uncommon English at frequency #69,694 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɔːʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for borscht in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: 1884 or 1808. Borrowed from Yiddish באָרשט (borsht), from Russian or Ukrainian борщ (boršč). Doublet of barszcz. The correct English form is borscht, spelled B-O-R-S-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its countries of origin.
- 2Any similar sour soup made of other ingredients such as sorrel, cabbage, hogweed
Etymology
1884 or 1808. Borrowed from Yiddish באָרשט (borsht), from Russian or Ukrainian борщ (boršč). Doublet of barszcz.
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); 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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).