boiron
\bwa.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“boiron” is uncommon French (frequency #62,098 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,098
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui s’occupe, garde ou conduit des bœufs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boiron · boiron · French
boiron · rank #62,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,098
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blondinette
Nearest frequency peer: blondinette (-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 « boiron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Blackwood
Blackwood
37,906 corpus weight
- blasée
blasée
37,905 corpus weight
- blondinette
blondinette
37,904 corpus weight
- boiron
boiron
37,903 corpus weight
- Boissier
Boissier
37,902 corpus weight
- Boonen
Boonen
37,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boiron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boiron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwa.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boiron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boiron is uncommon French at frequency #62,098 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bwa.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui s’occupe, garde ou conduit des bœufs.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for boiron in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is boiron, spelled B-O-I-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Personne qui s’occupe, garde ou conduit des bœufs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boiron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les boirons échangeaient des facéties rustiques en liant leurs bœufs sous nos fenêtres.
J’étais employé comme toucheur de bœufs — « boiron » comme on disait alors — surtout pendant le dernier mois d’hiver et les deux premiers mois de printemps.
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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