bosquet
\bɔs.kɛ\
The verdict
“bosquet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,919. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,919
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit bois ; touffe d’arbres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bosquet · bosquet · French
bosquet · rank #30,919 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,919
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boone
Nearest frequency peer: boone (-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 « bosquet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- biceps
biceps
69,085 corpus weight
- bienvenues
bienvenues
69,084 corpus weight
- boone
boone
69,083 corpus weight
- bosquet
bosquet
69,082 corpus weight
- boulangers
boulangers
69,081 corpus weight
- Bourbonnais
Bourbonnais
69,080 corpus weight
What this shows « bosquet » 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 | bosquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔs.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bosquet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bosquet (IPA \bɔs.kɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,919 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bosquet, with forms such as "bbosquet", "boqsuet", and "bosqeut". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "bouquet", "briquet", "Bossuet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bosquet, spelled B-O-S-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit bois ; touffe d’arbres.
- 2Pièce de jardin plantée d’arbres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bosquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme il y avait d’autres bosquets de cette sorte entre les grands chênes, je demandai pourquoi l’assassin avait choisi celui-ci plutôt que les autres.
La terre que l’aïeul paternel de Saint-Ybars, émigré du Canada en Louisiane, avait achetée en 1749, n’était alors qu’un désert dont le centre était occupé par un bosquet de chênes séculaires.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbosquet
- boqsuet
- bosqeut
- bosqquet
- bosquett
- bosqute
- bossquet
- bosuqet
- bsoquet
- obsquet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bosquet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).