boycotte

Name: boycotte, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\bɔj.kɔt\

/\bɔj.kɔt\/ verb

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“boycotte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,617. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,617
frequency rank, French: 4,251
“B” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boycotter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-boycotte · boycotte · French

boycotte · rank #46,617 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

FREQ-MID #46,617
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 4,251
PHOTO-FINISH Bram

Nearest frequency peer: Bram (+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.

booking

53,388
bouleversés

53,387
boycotte

53,384
Bram

53,383
brava

53,382
Bruckner

53,380

What this shows « boycotte » 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).

boycotte vs boycotter

89% similar

boycotte vs boycott

88% similar

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

Key facts for boycotte
Property	Value
Headword	boycotte
Language	French
Part of speech	Verb
IPA	\bɔj.kɔt\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#46,617
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	2
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boycotte »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).boycottese place ici:

#46,617

#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 « Bram » (#46,618), « brava » (#46,619), « bouleversés » (#46,614). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « boycotte » est au #46,617. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around boycotte (IPA \bɔj.kɔt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,617 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for boycotte, with forms such as "bboycotte", "bocyotte", and "boyccotte". 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, "boycotter", "boycott", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 boycotte, spelled B-O-Y-C-O-T-T-E.

Definition

1
Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boycotter.
2
Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boycotter.
3
Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe boycotter.
4
Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe boycotter.
5
Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe boycotter.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

bboycotte
bocyotte
boyccotte
boycote
boycotet
boyctote
boyoctte
boyycotte
byocotte
obycotte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

Edit distance from "boycotte"

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 "boycotte"?

"boycotte" is spelled B-O-Y-C-O-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔj.kɔt\.

What does "boycotte" mean?

As a verb, "boycotte" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boycotter.

What words are commonly confused with "boycotte"?

"boycotte" is commonly confused with "boycotter", "boycott". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "boycotte"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "boycotte" is \bɔj.kɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "boycotte" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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