bocca
\bɔ.ka\
The verdict
“bocca” sits in 14 confusable pairs (corpus #46,030) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,030
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de verger habité d’Afrique du Nord, irrigué par une source et qui semble une petite oasis montagnarde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bocca · bocca · French
bocca · rank #46,030 · 4 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,030
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blondin
Nearest frequency peer: blondin (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bocca »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- birmans
birmans
53,974 corpus weight
- bizarrerie
bizarrerie
53,973 corpus weight
- blondin
blondin
53,972 corpus weight
- bocca
bocca
53,971 corpus weight
- Bonnefoy
Bonnefoy
53,970 corpus weight
- Bonneval
Bonneval
53,969 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bocca » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bocca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bocca »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bocca is neighbouring look-alikes ("bouc", "bora", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bɔ.ka\. Frequency #46,030 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Sorte de verger habité d’Afrique du Nord, irrigué par une source et qui semble une petite oasis montagnarde.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bocca, with forms such as "bbocca", "bcoca", and "bocac". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "bouc", "bora", "bock", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bocca, spelled B-O-C-C-A.
Definition
- 1Sorte de verger habité d’Afrique du Nord, irrigué par une source et qui semble une petite oasis montagnarde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bocca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De Mchounèche à Arris, dans les gorges de Thighanimine, des boccas rougeoyants d’épineux s’agglutinent çà et là le long de la piste routière. Tout est calme, aucun souffle de vie...
L’organisation que les trois FNL découvrent à leur arrivée est déjà bien avancée. Chacune des 18 boccas du douar Medjadja dispose de son groupe de militants et 9 de ces groupes sont armés grâce au stock Maillot ou avec des armes de poing et des fusils de chasse collectés à droite et à gauche.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbocca
- bcoca
- bocac
- obcca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bocca - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).