bobine
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,649
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bobine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit cylindre de bois qui est garni d’un rebord à ses deux extrémités et qui sert à filer au rouet, à dévider du fil, de la soie, de l’or, etc. Pronounced \bɔ.bin\. Often confused with bone and bonne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bobine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.bin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bobine is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ.bin\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,649 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for bobine, with forms such as "bbobine", "bboine", and "bobbine". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bone", "bonne", "boîte", 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 bobine, spelled B-O-B-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit cylindre de bois qui est garni d’un rebord à ses deux extrémités et qui sert à filer au rouet, à dévider du fil, de la soie, de l’or, etc.
- 2Cylindre de bois, de plastique, de métal, etc., avec ou sans rebord, servant à y enrouler des produits tels que du fil (végétal, synthétique, de fer, électrique, etc.), de la corde, de la ficelle, de la pellicule, de la bande magnétique, du ruban adhésif, etc.
- 3Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
- 4Cylindre autour duquel s’enroulent des fils métalliques qui servent à conduire un courant électrique.
- 5Cylindre autour duquel s’enroulent des fils métalliques qui servent à conduire un courant électrique.
- 6Tambour cylindrique sur lequel s’enroule le fil de fer ou d’acier après son passage dans la filière.
- 7Visage ; tête.
- 8La suite de jours de la vie, par allusion aux Parques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbobine,bboine,bobbine,bobien,bobinne,bobnie,boibne,obbine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "bobine"
Frequency rank: #20,649 in French
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