boys
\bɔj\
The verdict
“boys” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,933
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de boy.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boys · boys · French
boys · rank #6,933 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,933
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouffer
Nearest frequency peer: bouffer (-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 « boys »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bonnet
bonnet
93,071 corpus weight
- boucher
boucher
93,070 corpus weight
- bouffer
bouffer
93,069 corpus weight
- boys
boys
93,068 corpus weight
- char
char
93,067 corpus weight
- chirurgien
chirurgien
93,066 corpus weight
What this shows « boys » 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 | boys |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔj\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boys »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around boys (IPA \bɔj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,933 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de boy.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for boys, with forms such as "bboys", "bosy", and "boyss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BS", "bus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is boys, spelled B-O-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de boy.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboys
- bosy
- boyss
- boyys
- byos
- obys
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boys - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).