bosom
/ˈbʊz(ə)m/
"bosom" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bosom” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,075
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
Corpus desk
Index EN-bosom · bosom · English
bosom · rank #27,075 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,075
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bonanza
Nearest frequency peer: bonanza (-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 “bosom”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bigoted
bigoted
72,930 corpus weight
- bistro
bistro
72,929 corpus weight
- bod
bod
72,928 corpus weight
- bonanza
bonanza
72,927 corpus weight
- bosom
bosom
72,926 corpus weight
- Breitbart
Breitbart
72,923 corpus weight
What this shows “bosom” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bosom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbʊz(ə)m/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bosom”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bosom (IPA /ˈbʊz(ə)m/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,075 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bosom, with forms such as "bbosom", "boosm", and "bosmo". 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, "boss", "Brom", "bozo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“… The correct English form is bosom, spelled B-O-S-O-M.
Definition
- 1The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
- 2The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
- 3The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
- 4The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
- 5A breast, one of a woman's breasts
- 6Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
- 7A depression round the eye of a millstone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bosom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion? In this case practicality dictated a bra, and Mary stood at the desk feeling herself flushing with disapproval.
Etymology
From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbosom
- boosm
- bosmo
- bosomm
- bossom
- bsoom
- obsom
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bosom - 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.
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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