boit

\bwa\

/\bwa\/ verb

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The verdict

“boit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,791) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#7,791
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-boit · boit · French

boit · rank #7,791 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,791
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH biodiversité

Nearest frequency peer: biodiversité (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « boit »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « boit » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

boit vs BT
0% similar
boit vs bon
50% similar
boit vs but
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for boit
PropertyValue
Headwordboit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bwa\
Letters4
Frequency rank#7,791
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « boit »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).boitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « biodiversité » (#7,790), « brave » (#7,792), « Billy » (#7,789). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « boit » est au #7,791. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for boit is neighbouring look-alikes ("BT", "bon", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \bwa\. Frequency #7,791 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for boit, with forms such as "bboit", "boitt", and "boti". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BT", "bon", "but", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 boit, spelled B-O-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how boit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sachez, comte Henri, que c'est petit métier de voltairianiser dans les lieux où l’on boit du petit vin : sachez que l’absence de religion fait seule donner de si beaux chevaux à Zora ; et qu’après tout, mieux vaut encore mettre une bête de 15,000 fr. dans l’écurie de cette rousse que de sâouler d’impiété quelques centaines de butors, pour un gage de quinz…
  2. Je me fais un rouge limé. Drôle de goût, mais ça se boit.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bboit
  • boitt
  • boti
  • obit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boit - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

bboit1boitt1boti2obit2
Edit distance from "boit"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "boit"?
"boit" is spelled B-O-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bwa\.
What does "boit" mean?
As a verb, "boit" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boire.
What words are commonly confused with "boit"?
"boit" is commonly confused with "BT", "bon", "but". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "boit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "boit" is \bwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "boit" come from?
"boit" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "boit", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

coca#7,799ados#7,780dark#7,809homo#7,840

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list