boycotter
\bɔj.kɔ.te\
The verdict
“boycotter” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,065. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,065
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volontairement et systématiquement éviter, refuser d’acheter les produits ou services d'une entreprise ou d'une nation afin d’exprimer son désaccord envers leur comportement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boycotter · boycotter · French
boycotter · rank #20,065 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,065
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouddhiste
Nearest frequency peer: bouddhiste (-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 « boycotter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- blanchard
blanchard
79,939 corpus weight
- blanchir
blanchir
79,938 corpus weight
- bouddhiste
bouddhiste
79,937 corpus weight
- boycotter
boycotter
79,936 corpus weight
- Brendan
Brendan
79,935 corpus weight
- bro
bro
79,934 corpus weight
What this shows « boycotter » 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 | boycotter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔj.kɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boycotter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around boycotter (IPA \bɔj.kɔ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,065 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for boycotter, with forms such as "bboycotter", "bocyotter", and "boyccotter". 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, "boycott", "boycotte", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is boycotter, spelled B-O-Y-C-O-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Volontairement et systématiquement éviter, refuser d’acheter les produits ou services d'une entreprise ou d'une nation afin d’exprimer son désaccord envers leur comportement.
- 2Refuser collectivement de participer à une action publique pour l'empêcher de réussir.
- 3Ignorer, refuser de participer à un événement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boycotter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par malheur, cet hôtel était alors « boycotté ». Ce néologisme irlandais vient du nom d’un certain capitaine Boycott, lequel avait réclamé l’assistance de la police pour engranger ses récoltes, les manouvriers du pays se refusant à travailler sur son domaine. Être mis en quarantaine, c’est précisément ce que signifie le mot boycotter.
Pour soutenir les entreprises locales, les colonies américaines de la Grande-Bretagne boycottèrent le thé de la très puissante entreprise East India. Puis, elles boycottèrent tous les produits britanniques, accomplissant ainsi un premier pas vers l’indépendance.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboycotter
- bocyotter
- boyccotter
- boycoter
- boycotetr
- boycotterr
- boycottre
- boyctoter
- boyoctter
- boyycotter
- byocotter
- obycotter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boycotter - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).