bobards
\bɔ.baʁ\
The verdict
“bobards” is uncommon French (frequency #57,115 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,115
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bobard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bobards · bobards · French
bobards · rank #57,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,115
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blottir
Nearest frequency peer: blottir (-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 « bobards »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Blanqui
Blanqui
42,889 corpus weight
- blinder
blinder
42,888 corpus weight
- blottir
blottir
42,887 corpus weight
- bobards
bobards
42,886 corpus weight
- Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
42,885 corpus weight
- bolognaise
bolognaise
42,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bobards » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bobards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bobards » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bobards is uncommon French at frequency #57,115 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bobard.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bobards, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bobards, spelled B-O-B-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bobard.
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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