bovidés
\bɔ.vi.de\
The verdict
“bovidés” is uncommon French (frequency #74,613 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,613
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bovidé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bovides · bovidés · French
bovidés · rank #74,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,613
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bourdeau
Nearest frequency peer: Bourdeau (-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 « bovidés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bouguenais
Bouguenais
25,391 corpus weight
- Bourbaki
Bourbaki
25,390 corpus weight
- Bourdeau
Bourdeau
25,389 corpus weight
- bovidés
bovidés
25,388 corpus weight
- brancardier
brancardier
25,386 corpus weight
- brandie
brandie
25,385 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bovidés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bovidés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.vi.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bovidés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bovidés is uncommon French at frequency #74,613 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.vi.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bovidé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bovidés in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bovidés, spelled B-O-V-I-D-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bovidé.
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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