borax
\bɔ.ʁaks\
The verdict
“borax” is uncommon French (frequency #88,397 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,397
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tétraborate de sodium hydraté, de formule Na₂B₄O₇·10H₂O. Utilisé pour faciliter la fusion des métaux , comme retardateur de flamme, insecticide et fongicide. On l’a longtemps employé en médecine co...
Corpus desk
Index FR-borax · borax · French
borax · rank #88,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,397
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 227,490
- PHOTO-FINISH borre
Nearest frequency peer: borre (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “borax”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bonapartisme
bonapartisme
11,607 corpus weight
- borax
borax
11,604 corpus weight
- borre
borre
11,603 corpus weight
- borée
borée
11,602 corpus weight
- bossaient
bossaient
11,601 corpus weight
- bossus
bossus
11,600 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “borax” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.ʁaks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “borax” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
borax is uncommon French at frequency #88,397 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.ʁaks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for borax in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is borax, spelled B-O-R-A-X.
Definition
- 1Tétraborate de sodium hydraté, de formule Na₂B₄O₇·10H₂O. Utilisé pour faciliter la fusion des métaux , comme retardateur de flamme, insecticide et fongicide. On l’a longtemps employé en médecine comme désinfectant.
- 2Minéral composé de tétraborate de sodium hydraté, il cristallise dans le système monoclinique.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.