box

\bɔks\

/\bɔks\/ noun

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The verdict

“box” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,314) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#4,314
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compartiment disposé dans les écuries ou les étables pour isoler les animaux et les y tenir libres et sans attaches.

Corpus desk

Index FR-box · box · French

box · rank #4,314 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,314
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bonsoir

Nearest frequency peer: bonsoir (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « box »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « box » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

box vs by
33% similar
box vs bu
33% similar
box vs Br
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for box
PropertyValue
Headwordbox
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔks\
Letters3
Frequency rank#4,314
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « box »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).boxse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bonsoir » (#4,313), « caractères » (#4,315), « bite » (#4,312). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « box » est au #4,314. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for box is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bɔks\. Frequency #4,314 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Zero misspellings are on record for box in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is box, spelled B-O-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Compartiment disposé dans les écuries ou les étables pour isoler les animaux et les y tenir libres et sans attaches.
  2. 2
    Compartiment pour détenir les prévenus dans une cour de justice.
  3. 3
    Compartiment pour garer une voiture dans un endroit fermé.
  4. 4
    Grande caisse en métal, en plastique ou en bois, sur pieds ou palette, pour le rangement, le déplacement et le transport de produits.
  5. 5
    Petite section semi-fermée à une table, dans un restaurant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how box appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il pénétra dans une longue salle, sans dorure, brune, divisée par des cloisons à mi-corps, en une série de compartiments semblables aux boxes des écuries.
  2. Il y avait dans l’étable une sorte de box, là où, d’ordinaire, le père Renon attachait son taureau. Mais cette année-là, le taureau avait été vendu, le box était libre.

Synonyms

box palettecaisse paletteniche

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "box"?
"box" is spelled B-O-X. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔks\.
What does "box" mean?
As a noun, "box" means: Compartiment disposé dans les écuries ou les étables pour isoler les animaux et les y tenir libres et sans attaches.
What words are commonly confused with "box"?
"box" is commonly confused with "by", "bu", "Br". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "box"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "box" is \bɔks\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "box" come from?
"box" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "box", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sam#4,285onu#4,259Lee#4,425riz#4,181

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list