boum
\bum\
The verdict
“boum” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,918. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,918
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exprime le bruit sourd d’une explosion, du tambour ou des battements cardiaques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boum · boum · French
boum · rank #12,918 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,918
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bouddha
Nearest frequency peer: Bouddha (-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 « boum »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Beaulieu
Beaulieu
87,088 corpus weight
- bombardement
bombardement
87,086 corpus weight
- Bouddha
Bouddha
87,084 corpus weight
- boum
boum
87,083 corpus weight
- brusquement
brusquement
87,082 corpus weight
- calmez
calmez
87,079 corpus weight
What this shows « boum » 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 | boum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \bum\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boum »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around boum (IPA \bum\), anonomatopoeia. Corpus frequency is #12,918 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for boum, with forms such as "bboum", "bomu", and "boumm". 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, "bu", "but", "bus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boum, spelled B-O-U-M.
Definition
- 1Exprime le bruit sourd d’une explosion, du tambour ou des battements cardiaques.
- 2Mot prononcé autrefois par les garçons de café lorsqu’ils servaient une consommation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon cœur fait boum ! quand je te vois.
Ça viendra, bibiche, mais tu ne donnes pas encore assez moelleusement le coup des hanches qui doit pimenter le « boum » de la grosse caisse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboum
- bomu
- boumm
- buom
- obum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boum - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).