bot
\bo\
The verdict
“bot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,002) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,002
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déformé, atteint par une contracture ou une lésion permanente des muscles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bot · bot · French
bot · rank #11,002 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,002
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bruges
Nearest frequency peer: Bruges (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bot »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- avances
avances
89,003 corpus weight
- barbares
barbares
89,002 corpus weight
- bot
bot
88,999 corpus weight
- Bruges
Bruges
88,998 corpus weight
- brutale
brutale
88,997 corpus weight
- cabinets
cabinets
88,995 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bot » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bo\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bot »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bot is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \bo\. Frequency #11,002 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Déformé, atteint par une contracture ou une lésion permanente des muscles.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bot, spelled B-O-T.
Definition
- 1Déformé, atteint par une contracture ou une lésion permanente des muscles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a un pied bot.
Une main bote.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).