boh
The verdict
“boh” is uncommon French (frequency #50,679 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,679
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chef de bande birman.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boh · boh · French
boh · rank #50,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,679
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bocuse
Nearest frequency peer: Bocuse (-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 « boh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blame
blame
49,325 corpus weight
- blanchissage
blanchissage
49,324 corpus weight
- Bocuse
Bocuse
49,323 corpus weight
- boh
boh
49,322 corpus weight
- bolo
bolo
49,321 corpus weight
- Bonin
Bonin
49,320 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boh is uncommon French at frequency #50,679 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chef de bande birman.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boh in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boh, spelled B-O-H.
Definition
- 1Chef de bande birman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'apprends sans tarder, que de l'aut' côté du fleuve, à environ neuf milles d'où on était, y avait une ville littéralement bourrée de dahs, de bohs et d'flèches, de dacoïts, d'éléphants, sans parler des mousquets.
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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