bog
\bɔɡ\
The verdict
“bog” is uncommon French (frequency #76,372 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,372
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de cartes qui se joue avec un carton circulaire divisé en six compartiments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bog · bog · French
bog · rank #76,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,372
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boardwalk
Nearest frequency peer: boardwalk (-2 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 « bog »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blend
blend
23,633 corpus weight
- BMP
BMP
23,632 corpus weight
- boardwalk
boardwalk
23,631 corpus weight
- bog
bog
23,629 corpus weight
- Botafogo
Botafogo
23,626 corpus weight
- Boucar
Boucar
23,625 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bog » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bog |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bog » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bog is uncommon French at frequency #76,372 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bog in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bog, spelled B-O-G.
Definition
- 1Jeu de cartes qui se joue avec un carton circulaire divisé en six compartiments.
- 2Main de deux cartes de même valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Bog jouit d'une grande vogue auprès des campagnards italiens. Il vint de Lombardie en France où, au XIXᵉ siècle, il connut beaucoup de succès dans les provinces méridionales. — (Frans Gerver, Le guide Marabout de Tous les Jeux de Cartes, Verviers : Gérard & Cᵒ, 1966, page 76)
Quatre chances favorables se présentent au joueur le bog, le misti, le brelan simple et le brelan carré. Deux cartes semblables constituent le bog.
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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