boxe

\bɔks\

/\bɔks\/ noun

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The verdict

“boxe” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,154. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,154
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport dans lequel les deux adversaires échangent des coups selon certaines règles.

Corpus desk

Index FR-boxe · boxe · French

boxe · rank #7,154 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,154
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bouches

Nearest frequency peer: bouches (-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 « boxe »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « boxe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

boxe vs BX
0% similar
boxe vs boy
50% similar
boxe vs bye
50% similar

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

Key facts for boxe
PropertyValue
Headwordboxe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔks\
Letters4
Frequency rank#7,154
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boxe »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.boxese 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 « bouches » (#7,153), « brune » (#7,155), « beach » (#7,152). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « boxe » est au #7,154. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around boxe (IPA \bɔks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,154 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 boxe, with forms such as "bboxe", "boex", and "boxxe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BX", "boy", "bye", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boxe, spelled B-O-X-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sport dans lequel les deux adversaires échangent des coups selon certaines règles.
  2. 2
    Boxe anglaise.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Pour Kinjô Akio, Zhōu était spécialiste de plusieurs quánfă/boxes : hŭ-quán-/Boxe du Tigre, lĭquán/boxe de la carpe, yā-quán/boxe du canard, niúquán/boxe du buffle, quăn-quán/boxe du chien, hèquán/boxe de la grue.
  2. La boxe est très en honneur à Panama. J’assistai à de bons matches et quelques boxeurs noirs étaient tout près de la meilleure classe mondiale.

This word in other languages

pugilism(English)boxeo(Español)Boxen(Deutsch)boxe(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bboxe
  • boex
  • boxxe
  • bxoe
  • obxe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boxe - 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.

bboxe1boex2boxxe1bxoe2obxe2
Edit distance from "boxe"

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 "boxe"?
"boxe" is spelled B-O-X-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔks\.
What does "boxe" mean?
As a noun, "boxe" means: Sport dans lequel les deux adversaires échangent des coups selon certaines règles.
What words are commonly confused with "boxe"?
"boxe" is commonly confused with "BX", "boy", "bye". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "boxe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "boxe" is \bɔks\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "boxe" come from?
"boxe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sien#7,116pair#7,212pack#7,095cure#7,048

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

dead5 variantstien5 variantssony5 variantsessor5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list