boyard
\bɔ.jaʁ\
The verdict
“boyard” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,905
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom qu’on donnait aux seigneurs en Russie ou en Transylvanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boyard · boyard · French
boyard · rank #34,905 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,905
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bourguiba
Nearest frequency peer: Bourguiba (-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 « boyard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boucs
boucs
65,098 corpus weight
- Bourguiba
Bourguiba
65,097 corpus weight
- boyard
boyard
65,096 corpus weight
- boyaux
boyaux
65,095 corpus weight
- bran
bran
65,094 corpus weight
- briefing
briefing
65,093 corpus weight
What this shows « boyard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boyard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boyard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around boyard (IPA \bɔ.jaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,905 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for boyard, with forms such as "bboyard", "boayrd", and "boyadr". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "boyer", "boyau", "boyaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boyard, spelled B-O-Y-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom qu’on donnait aux seigneurs en Russie ou en Transylvanie.
- 2Richard, personne menant grand train.
- 3Personne mal habillée, vulgaire ; synonyme de baraki.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boyard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pantalon bouffant emprisonné dans ses bottes molles en cuir jaune, les reins ceints d’une écharpe aux couleurs vives sous un ample habit ouvert, par devant, la tête coiffée d’un bonnet de fourrure, il avait l’air d’un de ces vieux boyards aussi sages que braves qui siégeaient en conseil avec les princes Vladimir et Jaroslav ou faisaient la guerre avec…
Shéhérazade et Casanova ont été, furent, sont et seront, quelles que soient les guerres futures, des boîtes russes où les garçons et les maîtres d’hôtel, sommeliers, barmen et portiers, sanglés dans des uniformes de hauts dignitaires, sont des princes ou jouent au prince désabusé, baisant la main des soupeuses, et méprisent hautainement le client, par pri…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboyard
- boayrd
- boyadr
- boyardd
- boyarrd
- boyrad
- boyyard
- byoard
- obyard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boyard - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).