boli
The verdict
“boli” is uncommon French (frequency #80,930 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,930
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fétiche malien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boli · boli · French
boli · rank #80,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,930
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boiserie
Nearest frequency peer: boiserie (-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 « boli »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bodart
Bodart
19,074 corpus weight
- bogie
bogie
19,073 corpus weight
- boiserie
boiserie
19,072 corpus weight
- boli
boli
19,071 corpus weight
- bonifié
bonifié
19,070 corpus weight
- bootstrap
bootstrap
19,069 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boli » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boli » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boli is uncommon French at frequency #80,930 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fétiche malien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boli in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is boli, spelled B-O-L-I.
Definition
- 1Fétiche malien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart des villages avaient cessé de pratiquer le culte du Kono et, à mesure que leurs habitants se convertissaient à l’islam, l’existence même d’un boli au sein du village commençait à poser problème. Certains ont été abandonnés dans leur sanctuaire. D’autres ont été vendus plutôt que détruits, sans doute par crainte que le boli se retourne contre se…
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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