bossu
\bɔ.sy\
The verdict
“bossu” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,855. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,855
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a une ou plusieurs bosses au dos ou à la poitrine, par un vice de conformation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bossu · bossu · French
bossu · rank #31,855 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,855
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bossait
Nearest frequency peer: bossait (-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 « bossu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boat
boat
68,149 corpus weight
- bonheurs
bonheurs
68,148 corpus weight
- bossait
bossait
68,147 corpus weight
- bossu
bossu
68,146 corpus weight
- bouille
bouille
68,145 corpus weight
- bourne
bourne
68,144 corpus weight
What this shows « bossu » 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 | bossu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɔ.sy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bossu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around bossu (IPA \bɔ.sy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,855 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a une ou plusieurs bosses au dos ou à la poitrine, par un vice de conformation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for bossu, with forms such as "bbossu", "bosu", and "bosus". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bou", "boys", "bots", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bossu, spelled B-O-S-S-U.
Definition
- 1Qui a une ou plusieurs bosses au dos ou à la poitrine, par un vice de conformation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bossu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers la fin du siècle dernier, le vélocifère, prédécesseur de la diligence et des messageries, débarquait à Paris un provençal, plein de verve et d'entrain, né dans la ville d'Aix, et bossu, comme Ésope, par devant et par derrière.
Courtois le cadet, que tout le monde appelait laconiquement Tole, car il portait le prénom que commençait à peine d'illustrer M. France, Courtois le cadet était bossu d'une manière complexe et si j'ose dire, selon tous les méridiens.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbossu
- bosu
- bosus
- bsosu
- obssu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bossu - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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