bossa
\bɔ.sa\
The verdict
“bossa” is uncommon French (frequency #57,119 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,119
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de bosser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bossa · bossa · French
bossa · rank #57,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,119
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bolognaise
Nearest frequency peer: bolognaise (-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 « bossa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bobards
bobards
42,886 corpus weight
- Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
42,885 corpus weight
- bolognaise
bolognaise
42,883 corpus weight
- bossa
bossa
42,882 corpus weight
- boulle
boulle
42,880 corpus weight
- bourrelet
bourrelet
42,879 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bossa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « bossa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bossa is uncommon French at frequency #57,119 among 4,251 “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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