BPH
"bph" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“BPH” is uncommon English (frequency #77,476 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,476
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bph · BPH · English
BPH · rank #77,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,476
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH boulanger
Nearest frequency peer: boulanger (-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 “BPH”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- boog
boog
22,532 corpus weight
- boondoggle
boondoggle
22,531 corpus weight
- Bostonian
Bostonian
22,528 corpus weight
- boulanger
boulanger
22,526 corpus weight
- BPH
BPH
22,525 corpus weight
- brickman
brickman
22,521 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “BPH” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BPH |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #77,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “BPH” in English
Rare enough to double-check
BPH is uncommon English at frequency #77,476 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of benign prostatic hyperplasia.".
BPH doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is BPH, spelled B-P-H.
Definition
- 1Initialism of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BPH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mr. Goldman, like up to 90 percent of men in their 70s, has benign prostatic hyperplasia, or B.P.H., a nonmalignant growth of the prostate gland. […] Common risk factors for developing B.P.H. include, in addition to age, a family history of the condition, obesity, metabolic syndrome, a sedentary lifestyle and diabetes.
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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