drop a bomb
"drop-a-bomb" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drop a bomb” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drop a bomb |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drop a bomb” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
drop a bomb is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
drop a bomb has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is drop a bomb, spelled D-R-O-P- -A- -B-O-M-B.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, bomb.
- 2Alternative form of drop a bombshell.
- 3To release noxious gas from the bowels: to fart.
- 4To release feces into a toilet; to defecate.
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.
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Using “drop a bomb”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-O-P- -A- -B-O-M-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.