bossue
\bɔ.sy\
The verdict
“bossue” is uncommon French (frequency #80,934 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,934
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui a une ou plusieurs bosses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bossue · bossue · French
bossue · rank #80,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,934
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bootstrap
Nearest frequency peer: bootstrap (-2 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 « bossue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boli
boli
19,071 corpus weight
- bonifié
bonifié
19,070 corpus weight
- bootstrap
bootstrap
19,069 corpus weight
- bossue
bossue
19,067 corpus weight
- boucau
boucau
19,065 corpus weight
- Bouffard
Bouffard
19,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bossue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bossue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.sy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bossue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bossue is uncommon French at frequency #80,934 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.sy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui a une ou plusieurs bosses.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bossue, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bossue, spelled B-O-S-S-U-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui a une ou plusieurs bosses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bossue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une épaule plus haute que l’autre, de longs bras de bossue, un profil de chèvre noire, était-ce possible qu’une telle disgrâce fût sortie de sa beauté souveraine, cette beauté qu’elle avait passé sa vie entière à aimer elle-même, à soigner avec dévotion, la religion unique qu’elle eût pratiquée ?
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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