bort
"bort" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bort” is uncommon English (frequency #89,174 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,174
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The shards or fragments removed from diamonds during cutting, used for industrial purposes such as abrasives in cutting, drilling or grinding tools; a poorly crystallized diamond.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bort · bort · English
bort · rank #89,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,174
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bomer
Nearest frequency peer: Bomer (-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 “bort”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blitzes
blitzes
10,831 corpus weight
- blurting
blurting
10,830 corpus weight
- Bomer
Bomer
10,828 corpus weight
- bort
bort
10,827 corpus weight
- Bosman
Bosman
10,826 corpus weight
- Boudreaux
Boudreaux
10,825 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bort” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bort |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bort” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bort is uncommon English at frequency #89,174 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The shards or fragments removed from diamonds during cutting, used for industrial purposes such as abrasives in cutting, drilling or grinding tools; a poorly crystallized diamond.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bort in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is bort, spelled B-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1The shards or fragments removed from diamonds during cutting, used for industrial purposes such as abrasives in cutting, drilling or grinding tools; a poorly crystallized diamond.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1931, Business Week, Issues 82-94, page 25, Bits that would require 4 to 16 carbonadoes are now set with 40 to 80 borts.
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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