bobard
\bɔ.baʁ\
The verdict
“bobard” is uncommon French (frequency #78,189 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,189
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mensonge, fausse nouvelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bobard · bobard · French
bobard · rank #78,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,189
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blottis
Nearest frequency peer: blottis (-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 « bobard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- biométhane
biométhane
21,816 corpus weight
- bloquants
bloquants
21,814 corpus weight
- blottis
blottis
21,813 corpus weight
- bobard
bobard
21,812 corpus weight
- bonifiée
bonifiée
21,811 corpus weight
- borgnes
borgnes
21,808 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bobard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bobard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bobard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bobard is uncommon French at frequency #78,189 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mensonge, fausse nouvelle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bobard in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bobard, spelled B-O-B-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Mensonge, fausse nouvelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bobard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Attention aux artistes ! nous prévint le patron. J’les paie leur poids d'bobards et j’tiens pas à m’faire agonir.
Je ne me laisse pas éblouir par les bobards : je suis pour les actes, moi, mon cher monsieur.
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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