bove
The verdict
“bove” is uncommon French (frequency #95,621 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,621
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caverne, cave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bove · bove · French
bove · rank #95,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,621
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bousculait
Nearest frequency peer: bousculait (-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 « bove »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Borodine
Borodine
4,385 corpus weight
- Boullier
Boullier
4,383 corpus weight
- boursouflé
boursouflé
4,382 corpus weight
- bousculait
bousculait
4,381 corpus weight
- bove
bove
4,380 corpus weight
- brevetabili…
brevetabilité
4,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bove » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bove |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #95,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bove » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bove is uncommon French at frequency #95,621 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caverne, cave.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bove, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bove, spelled B-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1Caverne, cave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bove appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une des choses remarquables dans cette ville, sont des caves profondes, nommées Boves, en latin Hypogea. Ce sont des lieux souterrains, assez vastes, sans soupirail, la plupart voûtes sans maçonnerie, mais soutenus par des piliers de pierre : on y encave du vin, de la bierre, &c. Ces Boves servent, en temps de siège, à retirer des meubles, toutes sortes d…
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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