botox
\bɔ.tɔks\
The verdict
“botox” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,633. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,633
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toxine botulique, toxine sécrétée par la bactérie responsable du botulisme et utilisée comme cosmétique pour son action paralysante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-botox · botox · French
botox · rank #40,633 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,633
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bornéo
Nearest frequency peer: Bornéo (-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 « botox »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bordj
bordj
59,371 corpus weight
- Borges
Borges
59,370 corpus weight
- Bornéo
Bornéo
59,369 corpus weight
- botox
botox
59,368 corpus weight
- bouseux
bouseux
59,367 corpus weight
- bouvet
bouvet
59,366 corpus weight
What this shows « botox » 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 | botox |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.tɔks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « botox »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around botox (IPA \bɔ.tɔks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,633 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Toxine botulique, toxine sécrétée par la bactérie responsable du botulisme et utilisée comme cosmétique pour son action paralysante.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for botox, with forms such as "bbotox", "bootx", and "botoxx". 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, "box", "bots", "botté", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is botox, spelled B-O-T-O-X.
Definition
- 1Toxine botulique, toxine sécrétée par la bactérie responsable du botulisme et utilisée comme cosmétique pour son action paralysante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how botox appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la question : « Pourquoi avoir recours à un traitement contre les rides ? », il se dégage plusieurs constantes : … le Vistabel® (le « botox ») lisse les traits du visage et donne un éclat au visage qui paraît détendu et reposé.
Le Botox n’existait pas à l’époque, et le contrôle des bouffissures graisseuses et des rides, aujourd’hui obtenu par des injections transcutanées, était alors opéré par le pinceau complaisant de l’artiste.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbotox
- bootx
- botoxx
- bottox
- botxo
- btoox
- obtox
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of botox - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).