bosco

\bos.ko\

/\bos.ko\/ noun

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The verdict

“bosco” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,076. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,076
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maître d’équipage qui se situe hiérarchiquement entre les officiers et les membres de l’équipage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bosco · bosco · French

bosco · rank #30,076 · 7 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,076
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH boréal

Nearest frequency peer: boréal (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bosco »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bosco » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

bosco vs boss
60% similar
bosco vs bouc
60% similar
bosco vs bosse
60% similar

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

Key facts for bosco
PropertyValue
Headwordbosco
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bos.ko\
Letters5
Frequency rank#30,076
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bosco »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).boscose 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 « boréal » (#30,075), « bottom » (#30,077), « Borgia » (#30,074). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bosco » est au #30,076. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around bosco (IPA \bos.ko\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,076 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bosco, with forms such as "bbosco", "bocso", and "boscco". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "boss", "bouc", "bosse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 bosco, spelled B-O-S-C-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Maître d’équipage qui se situe hiérarchiquement entre les officiers et les membres de l’équipage.
  2. 2
    Officier marinier supérieur en charge des manœuvriers.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il se prétendait le plus fin pêcheur et le plus fin manœuvrier de Bretagne parce qu’il avait été jadis bosco à bord d’un quatre-mâts qui faisait le Chili.
  2. Le bosco, un vieux second maître, jaillit de l’obscurité, gnome hilare.

This word in other languages

boatswain(English)contramaestre(Español)Bootsmann(Deutsch)contramestre(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbosco
  • bocso
  • boscco
  • bosoc
  • bossco
  • bsoco
  • obsco

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bosco - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

bbosco1bocso2boscco1bosoc2bossco1bsoco2obsco2
Edit distance from "bosco"

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 "bosco"?
"bosco" is spelled B-O-S-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is \bos.ko\.
What does "bosco" mean?
As a noun, "bosco" means: Maître d’équipage qui se situe hiérarchiquement entre les officiers et les membres de l’équipage.
What words are commonly confused with "bosco"?
"bosco" is commonly confused with "boss", "bouc", "bosse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bosco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bosco" is \bos.ko\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bosco" come from?
"bosco" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Biden#30,071build#30,083based#30,068bussy#30,084

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

bottom7 variantscédée7 variantsdorme7 variantsverdi7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list