Bost
\bɔst\
The verdict
“Bost” is uncommon French (frequency #62,102 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,102
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Section de la commune de Tirlemont en Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bost · Bost · French
Bost · rank #62,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,102
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boonen
Nearest frequency peer: Boonen (-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 « Bost »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boissier
Boissier
37,902 corpus weight
- Boonen
Boonen
37,900 corpus weight
- Bost
Bost
37,899 corpus weight
- bottle
bottle
37,898 corpus weight
- boudeuse
boudeuse
37,897 corpus weight
- Bourvil
Bourvil
37,896 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bost » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bost |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɔst\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bost » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bost is uncommon French at frequency #62,102 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɔst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Section de la commune de Tirlemont en Belgique.".
Bost has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Bost, spelled B-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1Section de la commune de Tirlemont en Belgique.
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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