Beauvois
\bo.vwa\
The verdict
“Beauvois” is uncommon French (frequency #69,615 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,615
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beauvois · Beauvois · French
Beauvois · rank #69,615 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,615
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bazire
Nearest frequency peer: Bazire (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Beauvois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bagnes
bagnes
30,392 corpus weight
- bata
bata
30,388 corpus weight
- Bazire
Bazire
30,387 corpus weight
- Beauvois
Beauvois
30,386 corpus weight
- Bergeret
Bergeret
30,382 corpus weight
- Berthet
Berthet
30,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Beauvois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beauvois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bo.vwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Beauvois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Beauvois is uncommon French at frequency #69,615 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bo.vwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Beauvois has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Beauvois, spelled B-E-A-U-V-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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