Bosnie
\bɔs.ni\
The verdict
“Bosnie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,323. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,323
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région centrale de la Bosnie-Herzégovine, correspondant à la Fédération de Bosnie et Herzégovine ; l’autre moitié du pays forme la Republika Srpska (« République serbe »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bosnie · Bosnie · French
Bosnie · rank #12,323 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,323
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bart
Nearest frequency peer: Bart (-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 « Bosnie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- banquiers
banquiers
87,681 corpus weight
- baptisée
baptisée
87,680 corpus weight
- Bart
Bart
87,679 corpus weight
- Bosnie
Bosnie
87,678 corpus weight
- bretonne
bretonne
87,677 corpus weight
- Bryan
Bryan
87,676 corpus weight
What this shows « Bosnie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bosnie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɔs.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bosnie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Bosnie (IPA \bɔs.ni\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,323 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bosnie, with forms such as "bbosnie", "bonsie", and "bosine". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "bosse", "Bowie", "bougie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Bosnie, spelled B-O-S-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Région centrale de la Bosnie-Herzégovine, correspondant à la Fédération de Bosnie et Herzégovine ; l’autre moitié du pays forme la Republika Srpska (« République serbe »).
- 2La Bosnie-Herzégovine en entier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bosnie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Bosniaques prirent l’alarme, les uns s’imaginant qu'on voulait croatiser la Bosnie, les autres se plaignant qu’on favorisât les catholiques au détriment des orthodoxes.
Et il avait voulu que Perrine prît dans la bibliothèque les livres qui parlaient de la Bosnie, cherchant en eux, sans y trouver une explication satisfaisante, ce que son fils était venu faire dans ce pays sauvage, au climat rude, où il n’y a ni commerce, ni industrie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbosnie
- bonsie
- bosine
- bosnei
- bosnnie
- bossnie
- bsonie
- obsnie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bosnie - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).