boba
\bo.ba\
The verdict
“boba” is uncommon French (frequency #71,292 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,292
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de tapioca noir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boba · boba · French
boba · rank #71,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,292
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bloguer
Nearest frequency peer: bloguer (-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 « boba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blessez
blessez
28,711 corpus weight
- bloguer
bloguer
28,710 corpus weight
- boba
boba
28,709 corpus weight
- boc
boc
28,708 corpus weight
- bogues
bogues
28,707 corpus weight
- boiter
boiter
28,706 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo.ba\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boba is uncommon French at frequency #71,292 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bo.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de tapioca noir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boba in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is boba, spelled B-O-B-A.
Definition
- 1Variété de tapioca noir.
This word in other languages
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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