bosnien
\bɔs.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“bosnien” is uncommon French (frequency #54,437 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,437
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Bosnie-Herzégovine ou aux Bosniens dans leur ensemble, sans considération de nationalité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bosnien · bosnien · French
bosnien · rank #54,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,437
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BLM
Nearest frequency peer: BLM (-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 « bosnien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bitche
Bitche
45,567 corpus weight
- BlackRock
BlackRock
45,566 corpus weight
- BLM
BLM
45,565 corpus weight
- bosnien
bosnien
45,564 corpus weight
- Bougainville
Bougainville
45,563 corpus weight
- bouillotte
bouillotte
45,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bosnien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bosnien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɔs.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bosnien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bosnien is uncommon French at frequency #54,437 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɔs.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la Bosnie-Herzégovine ou aux Bosniens dans leur ensemble, sans considération de nationalité.".
bosnien doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 bosnien, spelled B-O-S-N-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Bosnie-Herzégovine ou aux Bosniens dans leur ensemble, sans considération de nationalité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bosnien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis 1995, le territoire bosnien est divisé en deux entités : la fédération croato-musulmane et la Republika Srpska.
This word in other languages
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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