boundary
\ˈbaʊndərɪ\
The verdict
“boundary” is uncommon French (frequency #91,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,462
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frontière, limite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boundary · boundary · French
boundary · rank #91,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,462
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boug
Nearest frequency peer: boug (-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 « boundary »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bonneton
Bonneton
8,543 corpus weight
- boostés
boostés
8,542 corpus weight
- boug
boug
8,540 corpus weight
- boundary
boundary
8,539 corpus weight
- bouquiniste
bouquiniste
8,538 corpus weight
- bouviers
bouviers
8,536 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boundary » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boundary |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbaʊndərɪ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boundary » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boundary is uncommon French at frequency #91,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbaʊndərɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
boundary doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is boundary, spelled B-O-U-N-D-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Frontière, limite.
- 2Dioptre.
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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