bunce
"bunce" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bunce” is uncommon English (frequency #69,706 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,706
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A bonus; additional pay; money.
| 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) |
Where “bunce” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bunce is uncommon English at frequency #69,706 among 31,241 “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.
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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Using “bunce”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-U-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.