bottine
\bɔ.tin\
The verdict
“bottine” is uncommon French (frequency #59,122 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,122
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite botte de cuir mince ou d’étoffe dont la tige a peu de hauteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bottine · bottine · French
bottine · rank #59,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,122
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bombée
Nearest frequency peer: bombée (-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 « bottine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bloquaient
bloquaient
40,883 corpus weight
- bombée
bombée
40,880 corpus weight
- bottine
bottine
40,879 corpus weight
- boulin
boulin
40,878 corpus weight
- bousculant
bousculant
40,877 corpus weight
- brandissent
brandissent
40,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bottine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bottine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.tin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bottine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bottine is uncommon French at frequency #59,122 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bottine, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 bottine, spelled B-O-T-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Petite botte de cuir mince ou d’étoffe dont la tige a peu de hauteur.
- 2Sorte de brodequin à boutons, à élastiques ou à lacets.
- 3(Afrique centrale francophone) Préservatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bottine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des bottines de peau de daim non tannée le garantissaient des morsures des reptiles, […].
Sa jupe de soie gris argent, coupée en biais, se tendait de la hanche au jarret, découvrant ainsi quelques centimètres de bas minces et des souliers bas, au lieu des bottines à boutons que portaient encore la plupart des dames.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).