botté

\bɔ.te\

/\bɔ.te\/ adj

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The verdict

“botté” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,494. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,494
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui porte des bottes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-botte · botté · French

botté · rank #30,494 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,494
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bots

Nearest frequency peer: bots (-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 « botté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « botté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

botté vs bout
60% similar
botté vs boxe
40% similar
botté vs boue
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for botté
PropertyValue
Headwordbotté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\bɔ.te\
Letters5
Frequency rank#30,494
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « botté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.bottése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bots » (#30,493), « Briançon » (#30,495), « Bogota » (#30,492). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « botté » est au #30,494. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around botté (IPA \bɔ.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,494 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui porte des bottes.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for botté, with forms such as "bbotté", "botte", and "boté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bout", "boxe", "boue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is botté, spelled B-O-T-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui porte des bottes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how botté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ils étaient quinze, tous chemisés de rouge et bottés de fauve.
  2. Les jours de gros embouteillages car les touristes qui ne trouvaient rien d’autre à faire, se hasardaient en voiture dans des rues qui n’étaient pas faites pour ça, les jours où les crêperies refusaient du monde et où les villes du littoral étaient envahies par des troupes bottées, capelées de cirés comme des terre-neuvas.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbotté
  • botte
  • boté
  • botét
  • btoté
  • obtté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of botté - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

bbotté1botte1boté1botét2btoté2obtté2
Edit distance from "botté"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "botté"?
"botté" is spelled B-O-T-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔ.te\.
What does "botté" mean?
As an adjective, "botté" means: Qui porte des bottes.
What words are commonly confused with "botté"?
"botté" is commonly confused with "bout", "boxe", "boue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "botté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "botté" is \bɔ.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "botté" come from?
"botté" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "botté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Brock#30,498Bilal#30,489Capri#30,508astro#30,477

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

bath6 variantsAscq6 variantschin6 variantsadonne6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list