bois
[bwa]
The verdict
“bois” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,226) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,226
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baumaterial, das man aus Bäumen gewinnt: Holz
Corpus desk
Index DE-bois · bois · German
bois · rank #27,226 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,226
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bones
Nearest frequency peer: bones (+1 rank slots)
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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „bois“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- bischöflich…
bischöflichen
72,779 corpus weight
- blassen
blassen
72,778 corpus weight
- Blöcken
Blöcken
72,777 corpus weight
- bois
bois
72,775 corpus weight
- bones
bones
72,774 corpus weight
- Bora
Bora
72,773 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „bois“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | bois |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bwa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „bois“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bois is neighbouring look-alikes ("BS", "Bus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [bwa]. Frequency #27,226 among 5,818 “B” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bois, with forms such as "bbois", "boiss", and "bosi". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BS", "Bus", "Bot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is bois, spelled B-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Baumaterial, das man aus Bäumen gewinnt: Holz
- 2kleiner Ort, an dem Bäume wachsen: Holz, Wald, Gehölz, Hain, Wäldchen
- 3Holzblasinstrumente
- 4Geweih
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbois
- boiss
- bosi
- obis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bois - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bois", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).