cowboy
\ko.bɔj\
The verdict
“cowboy” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,700
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de cow-boy ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-cowboy · cowboy · French
cowboy · rank #18,700 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,700
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coopératif
Nearest frequency peer: coopératif (-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 « cowboy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contentent
contentent
81,304 corpus weight
- contribuant
contribuant
81,303 corpus weight
- coopératif
coopératif
81,302 corpus weight
- cowboy
cowboy
81,301 corpus weight
- Crawford
Crawford
81,300 corpus weight
- criait
criait
81,299 corpus weight
What this shows « cowboy » 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 | cowboy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ko.bɔj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cowboy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cowboy (IPA \ko.bɔj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,700 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de cow-boy ^([1]).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cowboy, with forms such as "ccowboy", "cobwoy", and "cowbboy". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cowboys", "combo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cowboy, spelled C-O-W-B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de cow-boy ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cowboy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Musclé mais maigre, blond, mais le cuir de la figure, des bras et des mains si tanné par le froid, le vent, la neige, la chaleur, le soleil et la sécheresse, qu’il prenait des reflets de vieux chaudron, vêtu que j’étais, comme tous les cowboys, d’un large chapeau gris, d’une chemise de satinette noire, — n’oubliez pas, au cou, le foulard rouge ! — et de c…
Avec le temps, les bolos ont été agrémentés d'éléments divers, dont des pierres plus ou moins précieuses. Portés d'abord par les seuls cowboys, ils ont été très vite adoptés par les femmes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccowboy
- cobwoy
- cowbboy
- cowboyy
- cowbyo
- cowoby
- cowwboy
- cwoboy
- ocwboy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cowboy - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cowboy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).