borscht
/bɔːʃt/
"borscht" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“borscht” is uncommon English (frequency #69,694 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,694
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its countries of origin.
| 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) |
Where “borscht” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
borscht is uncommon English at frequency #69,694 among 31,241 “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
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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 “borscht”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-O-R-S-C-H-T - 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.