bossoir
French, noun/bɔ.swaʁ/
bossoir is spelled B-O-S-S-O-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bossoir is a French masculine noun meaning “davit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Potence servant à hisser une annexe sur un navire”.
What does bossoir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedavit
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Potence servant à hisser une annexe sur un navire. 2. Pièce saillante placée à la proue (à bâbord et tribord sur les grandes embarcations) d’un navire destinée à la manœuvre de l’ancre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bossoir
- bossoirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bossoir?
- /bɔ.swaʁ/
- \bɔ.swaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bossoir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bossoir in French?
bossoir appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).