boive
\bwav\
The verdict
“boive” is uncommon French (frequency #55,781 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,781
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de boire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boive · boive · French
boive · rank #55,781 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,781
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boiteuse
Nearest frequency peer: boiteuse (-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 « boive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blanchie
blanchie
44,223 corpus weight
- blondasse
blondasse
44,222 corpus weight
- boiteuse
boiteuse
44,221 corpus weight
- boive
boive
44,220 corpus weight
- bonapartiste
bonapartiste
44,219 corpus weight
- bonifier
bonifier
44,218 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bwav\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boive is uncommon French at frequency #55,781 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bwav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
boive has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is boive, spelled B-O-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de boire.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de boire.
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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