boardwalk
\ˈbɔːɹd.ˌwɒk\
The verdict
“boardwalk” is uncommon French (frequency #76,370 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,370
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Promenade en bois (chemin pour piétons, généralement constitué de bois et situé le long d'une plage).
Corpus desk
Index FR-boardwalk · boardwalk · French
boardwalk · rank #76,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,370
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BMP
Nearest frequency peer: BMP (-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 « boardwalk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bivalves
bivalves
23,636 corpus weight
- blan
blan
23,635 corpus weight
- blend
blend
23,633 corpus weight
- BMP
BMP
23,632 corpus weight
- boardwalk
boardwalk
23,631 corpus weight
- bog
bog
23,629 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boardwalk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boardwalk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɔːɹd.ˌwɒk\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boardwalk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boardwalk is uncommon French at frequency #76,370 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbɔːɹd.ˌwɒk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Promenade en bois (chemin pour piétons, généralement constitué de bois et situé le long d'une plage).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for boardwalk in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is boardwalk, spelled B-O-A-R-D-W-A-L-K.
Definition
- 1Promenade en bois (chemin pour piétons, généralement constitué de bois et situé le long d'une plage).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boardwalk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The boardwalk along the seafront is currently being repaired.
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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