bolo
\bɔ.lo\
The verdict
“bolo” is uncommon French (frequency #50,680 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,680
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une sauce dite bolognaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bolo · bolo · French
bolo · rank #50,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,680
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boh
Nearest frequency peer: boh (-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 « bolo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blanchissage
blanchissage
49,324 corpus weight
- Bocuse
Bocuse
49,323 corpus weight
- boh
boh
49,322 corpus weight
- bolo
bolo
49,321 corpus weight
- Bonin
Bonin
49,320 corpus weight
- bordas
bordas
49,319 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bolo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɔ.lo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bolo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bolo is uncommon French at frequency #50,680 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɔ.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie une sauce dite bolognaise.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bolo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bolo, spelled B-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une sauce dite bolognaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bolo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Madame est dans le salon, fait Maria qui est en train apparemment de préparer une sauce bolo odorante et fumante.
Un peu comme quand nous on sent l'odeur d'oignons ou de basilic dans une sauce bolo, ça nous renseigne sur le contenu.
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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