Bozo
\bo.zo\
The verdict
“Bozo” is uncommon French (frequency #59,844 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,844
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre d’une ethnie d’Afrique de l’Ouest.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bozo · Bozo · French
Bozo · rank #59,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,844
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boutet
Nearest frequency peer: Boutet (-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 « Bozo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouddhiques
bouddhiques
40,160 corpus weight
- bouler
bouler
40,159 corpus weight
- Boutet
Boutet
40,158 corpus weight
- Bozo
Bozo
40,157 corpus weight
- braden
braden
40,156 corpus weight
- brasses
brasses
40,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bozo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bozo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo.zo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bozo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bozo is uncommon French at frequency #59,844 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bo.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Membre d’une ethnie d’Afrique de l’Ouest.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Bozo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Bozo, spelled B-O-Z-O.
Definition
- 1Membre d’une ethnie d’Afrique de l’Ouest.
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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