boîte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,651
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
boîte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet rigide et creux ayant la capacité de se fermer et qui a vocation à accueillir quelque chose. Pronounced \bwat\. It ranks #1,651 in French word frequency. Often confused with bot and bout.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boîte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwat\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for boîte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bwat\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,651 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for boîte, with forms such as "bboîte", "boite", and "botîe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bot", "bout", "boxe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is boîte, spelled B-O-Î-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet rigide et creux ayant la capacité de se fermer et qui a vocation à accueillir quelque chose.
- 2Boîte de conserve.
- 3Lieu de travail ; entreprise.
- 4Boîte de nuit ; discothèque ; cabaret.
- 5Espèce de petit mortier de fonte ou de fer, qu’on charge de poudre, qu’on bouche ensuite d’un tampon de bois et auquel on met le feu.
- 6Tout dispositif où entre et joue une pièce mobile, comme, par exemple, la douille qui emboite la mèche d’un vilebrequin ; la mortaise qui maintient le crochet de fer d’un établi, etc.
- 7Bouche.
- 8Très mauvaise note.
- 9Cercueil.
- 10Salle de police.
- 11Mesures de première et de deuxième fois (prima volta, seconda volta). Lorsqu’un passage est joué deux fois mais avec une fin différente, les mesures finales sont mises dans des « boîtes » intitulées « 1. » pour les mesures de première fois et « 2. » pour les mesures de deuxième fois.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bboîte,boite,botîe,boîet,boîtte,bîote,obîte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for boîte
Misspelling Variants of "boîte"
Frequency rank: #1,651 in French
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