booter
\bu.te\
The verdict
“booter” is uncommon French (frequency #93,541 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,541
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Démarrer (un ordinateur) à partir d’un état arrêté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-booter · booter · French
booter · rank #93,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,541
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bonifiés
Nearest frequency peer: bonifiés (-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 « booter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bolchévisme
bolchévisme
6,463 corpus weight
- bondissait
bondissait
6,462 corpus weight
- bonifiés
bonifiés
6,461 corpus weight
- booter
booter
6,460 corpus weight
- Borissov
Borissov
6,459 corpus weight
- boro
boro
6,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « booter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | booter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « booter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
booter is uncommon French at frequency #93,541 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Démarrer (un ordinateur) à partir d’un état arrêté.".
booter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is booter, spelled B-O-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Démarrer (un ordinateur) à partir d’un état arrêté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how booter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur cette même machine, j’ai un multiboot, et quand je boote sur la Fedora Core 4, ben GNOME/Firefox se tiennent bien (tres bien) mais les longues compilations segfaultent aléatoirement.
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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