bogey
\bo.ɡɛ\
The verdict
“bogey” is uncommon French (frequency #79,098 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,098
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contre-performance d’un joueur ou d’une joueuse qui joue un coup au-dessus du par.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bogey · bogey · French
bogey · rank #79,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,098
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bobino
Nearest frequency peer: bobino (-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 « bogey »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blackbird
blackbird
20,906 corpus weight
- blessed
blessed
20,905 corpus weight
- bobino
bobino
20,904 corpus weight
- bogey
bogey
20,903 corpus weight
- bombardées
bombardées
20,902 corpus weight
- bontés
bontés
20,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bogey » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bogey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo.ɡɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bogey » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bogey is uncommon French at frequency #79,098 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bo.ɡɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contre-performance d’un joueur ou d’une joueuse qui joue un coup au-dessus du par.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bogey in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bogey, spelled B-O-G-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Contre-performance d’un joueur ou d’une joueuse qui joue un coup au-dessus du par.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bogey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendergast manqua ses deux premiers putts à cinq mètres et dut se contenter d’un bogey.
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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