bowels
/ˈbaʊ.əlz/
"bowels" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bowels” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,019. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,019
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The deepest or innermost part.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bowels · bowels · English
bowels · rank #26,019 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,019
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blushing
Nearest frequency peer: blushing (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bowels”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- blaster
blaster
73,986 corpus weight
- bleep
bleep
73,985 corpus weight
- blushing
blushing
73,983 corpus weight
- bowels
bowels
73,982 corpus weight
- Boyce
Boyce
73,981 corpus weight
- braided
braided
73,980 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bowels” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | bowels |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbaʊ.əlz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bowels” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bowels (IPA /ˈbaʊ.əlz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,019 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bowels, with forms such as "bbowels", "boewls", and "bowells". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bowl", "bows", "boxes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is bowels, spelled B-O-W-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1The deepest or innermost part.
- 2The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
- 3The intestines.
- 4Compassion, sympathy.
- 5The body as the source of offspring.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bowels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
down in the bowels of the Earth
O momentary grace of mortal men, / Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! / Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, / Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, / Ready, with every nod, to tumble down / Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbowels
- boewls
- bowells
- bowelss
- bowesl
- bowwels
- bwoels
- obwels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bowels - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bowels", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "bowels" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "bowl". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #26,019 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "B" letter cohort. B–Z browse
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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.