bossaient
\bɔ.sɛ\
The verdict
“bossaient” is uncommon French (frequency #88,400 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,400
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bosser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bossaient · bossaient · French
bossaient · rank #88,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,400
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH borée
Nearest frequency peer: borée (-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 « bossaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- borax
borax
11,604 corpus weight
- borre
borre
11,603 corpus weight
- borée
borée
11,602 corpus weight
- bossaient
bossaient
11,601 corpus weight
- bossus
bossus
11,600 corpus weight
- botanic
botanic
11,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bossaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bossaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bossaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bossaient is uncommon French at frequency #88,400 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɔ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bosser.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bossaient, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 bossaient, spelled B-O-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe 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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