boz

noun

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The verdict

“boz” is uncommon French (frequency #78,199 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,199
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voix.

Corpus desk

Index FR-boz · boz · French

boz · rank #78,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,199
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bower

Nearest frequency peer: bower (-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 « boz »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for boz
PropertyValue
Headwordboz
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#78,199
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « boz » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).boztombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « bower » (#78,198), « bourbe » (#78,197), « bravent » (#78,201). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « boz » est au #78,199. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

boz is uncommon French at frequency #78,199 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for boz, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is boz, spelled B-O-Z.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voix.
  2. 2
    Voix.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how boz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Boz aktiboa eta pasiboa, voix active et passive.

Synonyms

ahots

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 "boz"?
"boz" is spelled B-O-Z.
What does "boz" mean?
As a noun, "boz" means: Voix.
What language does "boz" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

AVP#78,154CFM#78,247AUC#78,146zot#78,069

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list