boiter
\bwa.te\
The verdict
“boiter” is uncommon French (frequency #71,295 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,295
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clocher, incliner à chaque pas son corps plus d’un côté que de l’autre, ou alternativement de l’un et de l’autre côté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boiter · boiter · French
boiter · rank #71,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,295
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bogues
Nearest frequency peer: bogues (-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 « boiter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boba
boba
28,709 corpus weight
- boc
boc
28,708 corpus weight
- bogues
bogues
28,707 corpus weight
- boiter
boiter
28,706 corpus weight
- bolle
bolle
28,705 corpus weight
- Bonduelle
Bonduelle
28,704 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boiter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bwa.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boiter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boiter is uncommon French at frequency #71,295 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bwa.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
boiter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is boiter, spelled B-O-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Clocher, incliner à chaque pas son corps plus d’un côté que de l’autre, ou alternativement de l’un et de l’autre côté.
- 2Être bancal ou de qualité discutable.
- 3Qualifie les vers qui manquent d’euphonie avec les autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme je paraissais faible et que je boitais un peu, ma mère avait voulu me faire apprendre un métier plus doux que ceux de notre village.
Une petite levrette, avec une patte déhanchée et des yeux tristes, […], boitait d’un tapis sur l’autre.
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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