bunt
/bʌnt/
"bunt" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bunt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,058. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,058
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bunt · bunt · English
bunt · rank #36,058 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,058
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH burly
Nearest frequency peer: burly (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “bunt”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- brimstone
brimstone
63,946 corpus weight
- Bristow
Bristow
63,945 corpus weight
- bunt
bunt
63,943 corpus weight
- burly
burly
63,942 corpus weight
- butcher's
butcher's
63,941 corpus weight
- carbonated
carbonated
63,940 corpus weight
What this shows “bunt” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | bunt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bʌnt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bunt”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bunt (IPA /bʌnt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,058 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bunt, with forms such as "bbunt", "bnut", and "bunnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "but", "buy", "bus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt. The correct English form is bunt, spelled B-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
- 2A push or shove; a butt.
- 3A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
- 4The act of bunting.
- 5The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
- 6The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
- 7A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bunt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The bunt of the sail was green.
The bunt was fielded cleanly.
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbunt
- bnut
- bunnt
- buntt
- butn
- ubnt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bunt - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "bunt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).