bocquet
\bɔ.kɛ\
The verdict
“bocquet” is uncommon French (frequency #64,974 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,974
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meuble représentant un fer de lance ou de pique dans les armoiries. Ce nom est peu utilisé. À rapprocher de fer de dard, fer de flèche, fer de lance, fer de pique et phéon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bocquet · bocquet · French
bocquet · rank #64,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,974
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BNC
Nearest frequency peer: BNC (-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 « bocquet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bleutée
bleutée
35,030 corpus weight
- blueberry
blueberry
35,029 corpus weight
- BNC
BNC
35,028 corpus weight
- bocquet
bocquet
35,027 corpus weight
- bonbonne
bonbonne
35,025 corpus weight
- bonneterie
bonneterie
35,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bocquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bocquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bocquet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bocquet is uncommon French at frequency #64,974 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Meuble représentant un fer de lance ou de pique dans les armoiries. Ce nom est peu utilisé. À rapprocher de fer de dard, fer de flèche, fer de lance, fer de pique et phéon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bocquet, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bocquet, spelled B-O-C-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Meuble représentant un fer de lance ou de pique dans les armoiries. Ce nom est peu utilisé. À rapprocher de fer de dard, fer de flèche, fer de lance, fer de pique et phéon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bocquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’argent, à trois bocquets (alias fers de lance) de sable, qui est de Villers de Gemmasse
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).