boi
\bɔj\
The verdict
“boi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,999) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,999
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme alternative de boy, utilisée plus particulièrement pour désigner un jeune homme homosexuel soumis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boi · boi · French
boi · rank #33,999 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,999
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Blitz
Nearest frequency peer: Blitz (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « boi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- BK
BK
66,005 corpus weight
- blanca
blanca
66,004 corpus weight
- Blitz
Blitz
66,003 corpus weight
- boi
boi
66,002 corpus weight
- braguette
braguette
66,000 corpus weight
- bring
bring
65,999 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « boi » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « boi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boi is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bɔj\. Frequency #33,999 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Forme alternative de boy, utilisée plus particulièrement pour désigner un jeune homme homosexuel soumis.".
Zero misspellings are on record for boi in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boi, spelled B-O-I.
Definition
- 1Forme alternative de boy, utilisée plus particulièrement pour désigner un jeune homme homosexuel soumis.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).