bust one's neck
"bust-one-s-neck" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bust one's neck” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To work exceptionally hard.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bust-one-s-neck · bust one's neck · English
bust one's neck · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bust one's neck |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bust one's neck” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bust one's neck is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To work exceptionally hard.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bust one's neck, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is bust one's neck, spelled B-U-S-T- -O-N-E-'-S- -N-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1To work exceptionally hard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bust one's neck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Liz, I busted my neck getting you those votes!
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.