boycottage
\bɔj.kɔ.taʒ\
The verdict
“boycottage” is uncommon French (frequency #72,131 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,131
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boycott, action de boycotter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boycottage · boycottage · French
boycottage · rank #72,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,131
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brabançonne
Nearest frequency peer: brabançonne (+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 « boycottage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouffonne
bouffonne
27,875 corpus weight
- bouquiner
bouquiner
27,874 corpus weight
- bourrins
bourrins
27,873 corpus weight
- boycottage
boycottage
27,870 corpus weight
- brabançonne
brabançonne
27,869 corpus weight
- Braunschweig
Braunschweig
27,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boycottage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boycottage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔj.kɔ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boycottage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boycottage is uncommon French at frequency #72,131 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔj.kɔ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Boycott, action de boycotter.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boycottage in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is boycottage, spelled B-O-Y-C-O-T-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Boycott, action de boycotter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boycottage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le boycottage des briseurs de grèves.
Quant au crime de boycottage, comment soutenir que les mesures d’exception soient proposées pour le prévenir ou le réprimer ? Savez-vous quel est le plkus fervent adepte de cet art qu’on croit à tort d’origine irlandaise ? John Bull en personne. C’est lui qui a depuis longtemps inventé cette forme spéciale d’excommunication contre les Irlandais. No Irish…
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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