bosseur
\bɔ.sœʁ\
The verdict
“bosseur” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,367
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui travaille beaucoup.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bosseur · bosseur · French
bosseur · rank #48,367 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,367
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blogueuses
Nearest frequency peer: blogueuses (-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 « bosseur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- birmane
birmane
51,637 corpus weight
- bistrots
bistrots
51,636 corpus weight
- blogueuses
blogueuses
51,635 corpus weight
- bosseur
bosseur
51,634 corpus weight
- boyfriend
boyfriend
51,633 corpus weight
- brands
brands
51,632 corpus weight
What this shows « bosseur » 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 | bosseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɔ.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bosseur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bosseur (IPA \bɔ.sœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,367 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui travaille beaucoup.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bosseur, with forms such as "bbosseur", "bosesur", and "boseur". 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, "bossu", "boxeur", "brosser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bosseur, spelled B-O-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui travaille beaucoup.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bosseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mes parents étaient l’un et l’autre des bosseurs, mais ils ne sont quand même jamais montés bien haut sur l’échelle des revenus.
Des exceptions, il y en avait, Leguet, la bosseuse à mort, une des rares dont on est sûre qu’elle ira loin, mais pas question de l’admirer, quelle touche, renfrognée, habillée comme l’as de pique, son intelligence ne suscite aucune envie, on la plaindrait plutôt à cause du reste.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbosseur
- bosesur
- boseur
- bosseru
- bosseurr
- bossuer
- bsoseur
- obsseur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bosseur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).