boing
\bɔ.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“boing” is uncommon French (frequency #90,474 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,474
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit d'un objet élastique (comme un ressort) quand il rebondit, son du rebond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boing · boing · French
boing · rank #90,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,474
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bodo
Nearest frequency peer: bodo (-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 « boing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bobs
bobs
9,531 corpus weight
- Boch
Boch
9,530 corpus weight
- bodo
bodo
9,528 corpus weight
- boing
boing
9,527 corpus weight
- bonasse
bonasse
9,525 corpus weight
- bordait
bordait
9,524 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boing is uncommon French at frequency #90,474 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.ɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bruit d'un objet élastique (comme un ressort) quand il rebondit, son du rebond.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for boing in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is boing, spelled B-O-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Bruit d'un objet élastique (comme un ressort) quand il rebondit, son du rebond.
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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