booster

/\bus.tœʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,820

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

booster is aFrenchnoun. It means: Facteur de motivation, stimulant, incitant. Pronounced \bus.tœʁ\. Often confused with bosser and buster.

Key facts for booster
PropertyValue
Headwordbooster
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bus.tœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,820
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of booster in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for booster is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bus.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,820 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for booster, with forms such as "bbooster", "boosetr", and "boosster". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "bosser", "buster", "botter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is booster, spelled B-O-O-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Facteur de motivation, stimulant, incitant.
  2. 2
    Augmentation importante mais de durée limitée des capacités d’un personnage ou d’un véhicule dans un jeu vidéo.
  3. 3
    Pochette de cartes supplémentaires dans les jeux de cartes à collectionner.
  4. 4
    Procédé qui augmente la vitesse d’un revêtement de raquette de tennis de table.
  5. 5
    Appareil d’aide au démarrage d’un véhicule qui apporte plus de puissance à la batterie pendant un court instant.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbooster,boosetr,boosster,boosterr,boostre,boostter,bootser,bosoter,boster,oboster

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for booster

Misspelling Variants of "booster"

bbooster8boosetr7boosster8boosterr8boostre7boostter8bootser7bosoter7
Misspelling Variants of "booster"

Frequency rank: #15,820 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "booster"?
"booster" is spelled B-O-O-S-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bus.tœʁ\.
What does "booster" mean?
As a noun, "booster" means: Facteur de motivation, stimulant, incitant.
What words are commonly confused with "booster"?
"booster" is commonly confused with "bosser", "buster", "botter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "booster"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "booster" is \bus.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "booster" come from?
"booster" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.