bohémien
\bɔ.e.mjɛ̃\
The verdict
“bohémien” is uncommon French (frequency #68,083 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,083
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme d’une population européenne nomade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bohemien · bohémien · French
bohémien · rank #68,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,083
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Biterrois
Nearest frequency peer: Biterrois (-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 « bohémien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- biocarburant
biocarburant
31,920 corpus weight
- Biterrois
Biterrois
31,919 corpus weight
- bohémien
bohémien
31,918 corpus weight
- boira
boira
31,917 corpus weight
- boisseaux
boisseaux
31,916 corpus weight
- bonner
bonner
31,915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bohémien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bohémien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.e.mjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bohémien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bohémien is uncommon French at frequency #68,083 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.e.mjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bohémien, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bohémien, spelled B-O-H-É-M-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Homme d’une population européenne nomade.
- 2Artiste vivant en marge de la société.
- 3Synonyme de pigeon de Bohême (race de pigeons).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bohémien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qui a achevé de donner à ce coin perdu un caractère étrange, c’est l’élection de domicile que, par un usage traditionnel, y font les bohémiens de passage.
Et lorsque Plassans était endormi, ils entendaient encore les querelles des bohémiens, les pétillements de leur feu, au milieu desquels s’élevaient brusquement des voix gutturales de jeunes filles chantant en une langue inconnue, pleine d’accents rudes.
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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