boeufs
\bø\
The verdict
“boeufs” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,900. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,900
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de boeuf ; variante par contrainte typographique de bœufs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boeufs · boeufs · French
boeufs · rank #34,900 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,900
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blés
Nearest frequency peer: blés (-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 « boeufs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Blackburn
Blackburn
65,104 corpus weight
- blunt
blunt
65,103 corpus weight
- blés
blés
65,102 corpus weight
- boeufs
boeufs
65,101 corpus weight
- bomb
bomb
65,100 corpus weight
- boucs
boucs
65,098 corpus weight
What this shows « boeufs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | boeufs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \bø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boeufs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around boeufs (IPA \bø\), atypographic variant. Corpus frequency is #34,900 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de boeuf ; variante par contrainte typographique de bœufs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for boeufs, with forms such as "bboeufs", "beoufs", and "boefus". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "bonus", "bouts", "brefs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boeufs, spelled B-O-E-U-F-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de boeuf ; variante par contrainte typographique de bœufs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboeufs
- beoufs
- boefus
- boeuffs
- boeufss
- boeusf
- bouefs
- obeufs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boeufs - 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.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).