bogie
\bɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“bogie” is uncommon French (frequency #80,928 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,928
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chariot formé par un châssis muni de deux ou trois essieux, situé sous la caisse d’un véhicule ferroviaire et relié à cette dernière par un pivot. À l’inverse du truck, il est mobile par rapport à ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-bogie · bogie · French
bogie · rank #80,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,928
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bodart
Nearest frequency peer: Bodart (-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 « bogie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bluffante
bluffante
19,076 corpus weight
- Blériot
Blériot
19,075 corpus weight
- Bodart
Bodart
19,074 corpus weight
- bogie
bogie
19,073 corpus weight
- boiserie
boiserie
19,072 corpus weight
- boli
boli
19,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bogie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bogie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bogie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bogie is uncommon French at frequency #80,928 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chariot formé par un châssis muni de deux ou trois essieux, situé sous la caisse d’un véhicule ferroviaire et relié à cette dernière par un pivot. À l’inverse du truck, il est mobile par rapport à ...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bogie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bogie, spelled B-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Chariot formé par un châssis muni de deux ou trois essieux, situé sous la caisse d’un véhicule ferroviaire et relié à cette dernière par un pivot. À l’inverse du truck, il est mobile par rapport à la caisse du véhicule et pivote.
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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