Bobby

/\bɔ.bi\/ name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,963

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

Bobby is aFrenchname. It means: Prénom masculin. Pronounced \bɔ.bi\. It ranks #9,963 in French word frequency. Often confused with boy and bobo.

Key facts for Bobby
PropertyValue
HeadwordBobby
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\bɔ.bi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,963
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Bobby in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Bobby is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ.bi\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,963 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Prénom masculin.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bobby, with forms such as "bbobby", "bboby", and "bobbyy". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "boy", "bobo", "body", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Bobby, spelled B-O-B-B-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbobby,bboby,bobbyy,boby,bobyb,obbby

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Bobby

Misspelling Variants of "Bobby"

bbobby6bboby5bobbyy6boby4bobyb5obbby5
Misspelling Variants of "Bobby"

Frequency rank: #9,963 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Bobby"?
"Bobby" is spelled B-O-B-B-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔ.bi\.
What does "Bobby" mean?
As a name, "Bobby" means: Prénom masculin.
What words are commonly confused with "Bobby"?
"Bobby" is commonly confused with "boy", "bobo", "body". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Bobby"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Bobby" is \bɔ.bi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Bobby" come from?
"Bobby" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.