boiserie
\bwɑz.ʁi\
The verdict
“boiserie” is uncommon French (frequency #80,929 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,929
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrage de menuiserie dont on couvre les murs des appartements, des salles d’apparat, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boiserie · boiserie · French
boiserie · rank #80,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,929
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bogie
Nearest frequency peer: bogie (-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 « boiserie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Blériot
Blériot
19,075 corpus weight
- Bodart
Bodart
19,074 corpus weight
- bogie
bogie
19,073 corpus weight
- boiserie
boiserie
19,072 corpus weight
- boli
boli
19,071 corpus weight
- bonifié
bonifié
19,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boiserie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boiserie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwɑz.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boiserie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boiserie is uncommon French at frequency #80,929 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bwɑz.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ouvrage de menuiserie dont on couvre les murs des appartements, des salles d’apparat, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for boiserie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 boiserie, spelled B-O-I-S-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage de menuiserie dont on couvre les murs des appartements, des salles d’apparat, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boiserie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A peine une salle était-elle cloisonnée que les menuisiers s'en emparaient pour y poser les boiseries et les vitrines, les tapissiers la tendaient d'étoffe, des ouvriers spéciaux la parquetaient de linoléum.
Une atmosphère pesante et troublante régnait encore entre les murs aux boiseries sévères, sous le plafond à écussons.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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