bossa
\bɔ.sa\
The verdict
“bossa” is uncommon French (frequency #57,119 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,119
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de bosser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bossa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔ.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bossa” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bossa is uncommon French at frequency #57,119 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɔ.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de bosser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bossa in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bossa, spelled B-O-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de bosser.
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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Using “bossa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-S-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɔ.sa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.