boycott
\bɔj.kɔt\
The verdict
“boycott” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,114. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,114
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Refus systématique, libre, volontaire et idéologique de consommer les produits ou services d’une entreprise ou d’une nation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boycott · boycott · French
boycott · rank #12,114 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,114
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brandon
Nearest frequency peer: brandon (+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 « boycott »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bienveillan…
bienveillance
87,890 corpus weight
- bougie
bougie
87,889 corpus weight
- boycott
boycott
87,887 corpus weight
- brandon
brandon
87,886 corpus weight
- brillants
brillants
87,885 corpus weight
- bâtons
bâtons
87,884 corpus weight
What this shows « boycott » 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 | boycott |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔj.kɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boycott »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around boycott (IPA \bɔj.kɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,114 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for boycott, with forms such as "bboycott", "bocyott", and "boyccott". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "boycotte", "boycotter", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is boycott, spelled B-O-Y-C-O-T-T.
Definition
- 1Refus systématique, libre, volontaire et idéologique de consommer les produits ou services d’une entreprise ou d’une nation.
- 2Refus de participation à une élection, un évènement, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boycott appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le boycott des bus de Montgomery en 1955 à l’appel de Martin Luther King provoqua la fin de la discrimination raciale.
Certes, le boycott arabe n’a pas été d’une grande efficacité : des produits israéliens ont continué de pénétrer sur les marchés arabes après avoir « changé d’identité » pour ne pas dévoiler leur véritable origine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboycott
- bocyott
- boyccott
- boycot
- boyctot
- boyoctt
- boyycott
- byocott
- obycott
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boycott - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).