bois flotté
\bwɑ flɔ.te\
The verdict
“bois flotté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bois qui est transporté par flottaison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bois-flotte · bois flotté · French
bois flotté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bois flotté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwɑ flɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bois flotté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bwɑ flɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bois flotté, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bois flotté, spelled B-O-I-S- -F-L-O-T-T-É.
Definition
- 1Bois qui est transporté par flottaison.
- 2Bois récupéré dans l’eau, au bord de la mer, et qui a subi des transformations dues à ce séjour dans l’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bois flotté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rivière, sur laquelle nous jetâmes les yeux à travers les madriers, emmenait à la dérive des pièces de bois flotté que le courant pousse jusqu’à un certain endroit où on les repêche. Chaque bûche est timbrée de la marque du propriétaire et le tri s’en fait aisément.
Cette dernière après avoir rempli les fossés de la Ville sert à y porter plusieurs denrées , particulièrement du bois flotté qu'on y amène de la haute Alsace, dont Colmar est la Capitale, comme Strasbourg de la basse .
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.