bol
\bɔl\
The verdict
“bol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,733) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,733
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terre argileuse friable, miscible dans l’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bol · bol · French
bol · rank #4,733 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,733
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH av
Nearest frequency peer: av (-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 « bol »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
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architecte
95,271 corpus weight
- assurances
assurances
95,270 corpus weight
- av
av
95,269 corpus weight
- bol
bol
95,268 corpus weight
- centaine
centaine
95,267 corpus weight
- coalition
coalition
95,266 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bol » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bol »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bol is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bɔl\. Frequency #4,733 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
bol doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bol, spelled B-O-L.
Definition
- 1Terre argileuse friable, miscible dans l’eau.
- 2Petite boule composée de cette terre riche en oxydes, autrefois utilisée comme médicament.
- 3Du sens de « boule d’argile servie comme médicament » :
- 4Du sens de « boule d’argile servie comme médicament » :
- 5Du sens de « boule d’argile servie comme médicament » :
- 6Du sens de « boule d’argile servie comme médicament » :
- 7Argile riche en oxydes employée par les peintres, les doreurs, les relieurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La terre pourrie, les bols, [employés pour l’avivage des métaux] sont des argiles non plastiques plus ou moins riches en oxyde de fer.
Bol d’Arménie., utilisé pour la fabrication d'icônes chez les chrétiens orthodoxes.
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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