bode
\bəʊd\
The verdict
“bode” is uncommon French (frequency #59,837 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,837
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Augurer, présager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bode · bode · French
bode · rank #59,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,837
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blâment
Nearest frequency peer: blâment (-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 « bode »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bilodeau
Bilodeau
40,168 corpus weight
- bitte
bitte
40,166 corpus weight
- blâment
blâment
40,165 corpus weight
- bode
bode
40,164 corpus weight
- Bogdanoff
Bogdanoff
40,163 corpus weight
- bohémiens
bohémiens
40,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bode » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bode |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bəʊd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bode » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bode is uncommon French at frequency #59,837 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bəʊd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Augurer, présager.".
bode doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bode, spelled B-O-D-E.
Definition
- 1Augurer, présager.
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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