bof
\bɔf\
The verdict
“bof” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,458) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,458
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exprime l’apathie ou le manque d’enthousiasme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bof · bof · French
bof · rank #10,458 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,458
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Blake
Nearest frequency peer: Blake (-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 « bof »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- barreau
barreau
89,546 corpus weight
- Blake
Blake
89,544 corpus weight
- bof
bof
89,543 corpus weight
- book
book
89,542 corpus weight
- botanique
botanique
89,541 corpus weight
- Bouygues
Bouygues
89,540 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bof » 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 | bof |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \bɔf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bof »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bof is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \bɔf\. Frequency #10,458 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for bof in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bof, spelled B-O-F.
Definition
- 1Exprime l’apathie ou le manque d’enthousiasme.
- 2Exprime le doute quant à la valeur d'une personne ou d'une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bof appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En math, je coulais à pic. Le reste, bof.
LES BOFFISTES Partout, en Iran, en Chine, en Syrie, en Afghanistan, en Afrique, en Corée du Nord, à Hong Kong, les gens se battent pour avoir un peu de libertés. Juste un peu. Ici, bof.
Synonyms
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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