boye
\bɔj\
The verdict
“boye” is uncommon French (frequency #85,529 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,529
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de boille, bidon pour le lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boye · boye · French
boye · rank #85,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,529
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourrelier
Nearest frequency peer: bourrelier (-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 « boye »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- botnet
botnet
14,476 corpus weight
- Boukhara
Boukhara
14,474 corpus weight
- bourrelier
bourrelier
14,473 corpus weight
- boye
boye
14,472 corpus weight
- brasiers
brasiers
14,469 corpus weight
- brevetées
brevetées
14,467 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boye » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔj\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boye » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boye is uncommon French at frequency #85,529 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de boille, bidon pour le lait.".
boye has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is boye, spelled B-O-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de boille, bidon pour le lait.
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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