boche
\bɔʃ\
The verdict
“boche” is uncommon French (frequency #51,922 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,922
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Allemand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boche · boche · French
boche · rank #51,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,922
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bogue
Nearest frequency peer: bogue (+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 « boche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bizerte
Bizerte
48,083 corpus weight
- bjr
bjr
48,082 corpus weight
- boche
boche
48,079 corpus weight
- bogue
bogue
48,078 corpus weight
- boosters
boosters
48,076 corpus weight
- BPA
BPA
48,075 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boche is uncommon French at frequency #51,922 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
boche has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 boche, spelled B-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Allemand.
- 2Boule de bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous la lumière de la suspension, Puech regardait sa femme maigrie, pâlie, les yeux creusés. Boche ! Il en avait tué des Boches ! Il avait tué des hommes qui avaient quitté leur travail pour venir tuer et mourir; on lui avait donné une médaille ; on lui avait coupé une jambe.
Les Boches préparaient un « sale » coup, et Luc, de quart au périscope, avait donné l’alerte à sa tranchée. Presque aussitôt le bacchanal se déchaîne : les obus pleuvent, les parapets sautent.
This word in other languages
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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