bunce
"bunce" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bunce” is uncommon English (frequency #69,706 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,706
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A bonus; additional pay; money.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bunce · bunce · English
bunce · rank #69,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,706
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bussed
Nearest frequency peer: bussed (+3 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 “bunce”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- breadfruit
breadfruit
30,303 corpus weight
- bunce
bunce
30,295 corpus weight
- bussed
bussed
30,292 corpus weight
- Calista
Calista
30,290 corpus weight
- Camorra
Camorra
30,289 corpus weight
- campervan
campervan
30,288 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bunce” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bunce |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bunce” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bunce is uncommon English at frequency #69,706 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A bonus; additional pay; money.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bunce, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Costermonger jargon bunts, perhaps from bonus. The correct English form is bunce, spelled B-U-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1A bonus; additional pay; money.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bunce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?
Etymology
Costermonger jargon bunts, perhaps from bonus.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).