boob
\ˈbuːb\
The verdict
“boob” is uncommon French (frequency #99,931 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,931
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sein, mamelle (traductions possibles : néné, nibard, nichon, robert, etc.)
Corpus desk
Index FR-boob · boob · French
boob · rank #99,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,931
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bont
Nearest frequency peer: bont (-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 « boob »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Blase
Blase
77 corpus weight
- bont
bont
71 corpus weight
- boob
boob
70 corpus weight
- boulgour
boulgour
69 corpus weight
- bouquine
bouquine
68 corpus weight
- bril
bril
63 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boob » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boob |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbuːb\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #99,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boob » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boob is uncommon French at frequency #99,931 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbuːb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
boob 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is boob, spelled B-O-O-B.
Definition
- 1Sein, mamelle (traductions possibles : néné, nibard, nichon, robert, etc.)
- 2Idiot, imbécile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“It's not so much the money. It's the principle of the thing. If a girl's got something that's worth something to somebody, she's a boob if she doesn't collect.” — (Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, 1929)
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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