bocage

\bɔ.kaʒ\

/\bɔ.kaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“bocage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,342
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit bois ; lieu ombragé pittoresque.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bocage · bocage · French

bocage · rank #27,342 · 8 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,342
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bilatérale

Nearest frequency peer: bilatérale (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bocage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bocage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bocage vs bouge
67% similar
bocage vs bocal
67% similar
bocage vs bocaux
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bocage
PropertyValue
Headwordbocage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔ.kaʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#27,342
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bocage »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).bocagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bilatérale » (#27,341), « bonds » (#27,343), « bet » (#27,340). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bocage » est au #27,342. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around bocage (IPA \bɔ.kaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,342 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bocage, with forms such as "bbocage", "bcoage", and "boacge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "bouge", "bocal", "bocaux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bocage, spelled B-O-C-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit bois ; lieu ombragé pittoresque.
  2. 2
    Type de paysage où les champs et les prés sont coupés de haies vives et de bois.
  3. 3
    Type de paysage propre à la Normandie où les champs et les prés sont enclos par des levées de terre portant des haies ou des rangées d’arbres qui marquent les limites des parcelles.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bocage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La scène de la réconciliation, où Béatrix fit rejurer haine à l’épouse qui jouait, dit-elle, la comédie du lait répandu, se passa dans un vrai bocage où elle minaudait environnée de fleurs ravissantes, de jardinières d’un luxe effréné.
  2. La reconversion des oublieux a eu, au début du siècle dernier, un introït esthétisant, sans lequel ce retour à la chlorophylle, aux papillons et au bocage, ne nous paraîtrait pas aujourd'hui couler de source.

Synonyms

bosquet

This word in other languages

grove(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbocage
  • bcoage
  • boacge
  • bocaeg
  • bocagge
  • boccage
  • bocgae
  • obcage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bocage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bbocage1bcoage2boacge2bocaeg2bocagge1boccage1bocgae2obcage2
Edit distance from "bocage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bocage"?
"bocage" is spelled B-O-C-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔ.kaʒ\.
What does "bocage" mean?
As a noun, "bocage" means: Petit bois ; lieu ombragé pittoresque.
What words are commonly confused with "bocage"?
"bocage" is commonly confused with "bouge", "bocal", "bocaux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bocage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bocage" is \bɔ.kaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bocage" come from?
"bocage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bocage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Barney#27,334barbus#27,333button#27,353aumône#27,327

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

bonds8 variantsattiser8 variantsamasser8 variantscoiffée8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list