bubs
/bʌbz/
"bubs" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bubs” is uncommon English (frequency #59,934 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,934
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of bub
Corpus desk
Index EN-bubs · bubs · English
bubs · rank #59,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,934
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Buchholz
Nearest frequency peer: Buchholz (+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 “bubs”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bristled
bristled
40,075 corpus weight
- Brolin
Brolin
40,071 corpus weight
- bubs
bubs
40,067 corpus weight
- Buchholz
Buchholz
40,066 corpus weight
- cagey
cagey
40,063 corpus weight
- carbonaceous
carbonaceous
40,060 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bubs” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bubs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bʌbz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bubs” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bubs is uncommon English at frequency #59,934 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bʌbz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of bub".
Zero misspellings are on record for bubs in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is bubs, spelled B-U-B-S.
Definition
- 1plural of bub
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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