bore

\bɔʁ\

/\bɔʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“bore” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,194) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#42,194
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 5 et de symbole B, généralement classé parmi les métalloïdes, utilisé notamment dans le verre borosilicaté, les borates et certains alliages.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bore · bore · French

bore · rank #42,194 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,194
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH boosté

Nearest frequency peer: boosté (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bore »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « bore » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bore vs Br
25% similar
bore vs box
50% similar
bore vs boy
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bore
PropertyValue
Headwordbore
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#42,194
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bore »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.borese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « boosté » (#42,193), « Borgo » (#42,195), « blouses » (#42,192). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bore » est au #42,194. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for bore is neighbouring look-alikes ("Br", "box", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bɔʁ\. Frequency #42,194 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bore, with forms such as "bbore", "boer", and "borre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Br", "box", "boy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bore, spelled B-O-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Élément chimique de numéro atomique 5 et de symbole B, généralement classé parmi les métalloïdes, utilisé notamment dans le verre borosilicaté, les borates et certains alliages.
  2. 2
    Corps simple correspondant à cet élément, solide allotropique, brun (forme amorphe) ou noir à lustre métallique (forme cristalline), très dur et cassant.
  3. 3
    Atome (ou, par ellipse, noyau) de bore.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le bore est un élément chimique de symbole B et de numéro atomique Z = 5 dont la configuration électronique de la couche périphérique est [He] 2s² 2p¹.
  2. Le bore est un solide à TPN (température et pression normales) et se présente sous deux formes allotropiques : le bore amorphe sous une forme de poudre brune ; et la forme métallique : noire avec un lustre métallique, assez dure (9,3 dans l’échelle de Mohs), mauvais conducteur d’électricité, mais bon conducteur à température élevée.

Synonyms

boracium

This word in other languages

boron(English)boro(Español)Bor(Deutsch)boro(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbore
  • boer
  • borre
  • broe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bore - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bbore1boer2borre1broe2
Edit distance from "bore"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bore"?
"bore" is spelled B-O-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔʁ\.
What does "bore" mean?
As a noun, "bore" means: Élément chimique de numéro atomique 5 et de symbole B, généralement classé parmi les métalloïdes, utilisé notamment dans le verre borosilicaté, les borates et certains alliages.
What words are commonly confused with "bore"?
"bore" is commonly confused with "Br", "box", "boy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bore"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bore" is \bɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bore" come from?
"bore" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bore", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

crac#42,255crin#42,257visu#42,118deng#42,277

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list