botnet
\bot.nɛt\
The verdict
“botnet” is uncommon French (frequency #85,525 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,525
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Programme automatique ou semi-automatique, qui interagit avec des serveurs informatiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-botnet · botnet · French
botnet · rank #85,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,525
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blottit
Nearest frequency peer: blottit (-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 « botnet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Blatt
Blatt
14,480 corpus weight
- blindages
blindages
14,479 corpus weight
- blottit
blottit
14,478 corpus weight
- botnet
botnet
14,476 corpus weight
- Boukhara
Boukhara
14,474 corpus weight
- bourrelier
bourrelier
14,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « botnet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | botnet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bot.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « botnet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
botnet is uncommon French at frequency #85,525 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bot.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for botnet, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is botnet, spelled B-O-T-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Programme automatique ou semi-automatique, qui interagit avec des serveurs informatiques.
- 2Réseau d’ordinateurs passés sous le contrôle total ou partiel d’une seule personne ou organisation, le plus souvent à la suite de leur infection par un cheval de Troie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how botnet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart du temps, les propriétaires des PC appartenant au botnet ne se rendent compte de rien.
This word in other languages
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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