boira
\bwa.ʁa\
The verdict
“boira” is uncommon French (frequency #68,084 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,084
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de boire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boira · boira · French
boira · rank #68,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,084
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bohémien
Nearest frequency peer: bohémien (-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 « boira »
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 « boira » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bwa.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boira » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boira is uncommon French at frequency #68,084 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bwa.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de boire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boira in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 boira, spelled B-O-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur de boire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après ces préparations le malade boira pendant vingt-cinq jours chaque matin une écuellée de lait de vache qu'on aura eu soin de décrêmer à un feu très-doux, jusqu'à la diminution du tiers ou du quart.
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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