bouquet

[bu.kɛ]

/[bu.kɛ]/ noun

The verdict

“bouquet” is uncommon German (frequency #56,018 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,018
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index DE-bouquet · bouquet · German

bouquet · rank #56,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,018
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bramsche

Nearest frequency peer: Bramsche (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „bouquet“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bouquet“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bouquet
PropertyValue
Headwordbouquet
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[bu.kɛ]
Letters7
Frequency rank#56,018
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „bouquet“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).bouquetfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Bramsche“ (#56,019), „Brescia“ (#56,020), „bona“ (#56,015). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „bouquet“ bei #56,018. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bouquet is uncommon German at frequency #56,018 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bu.kɛ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Blumenstrauß".

No generated misspelling entries exist for bouquet in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is bouquet, spelled B-O-U-Q-U-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Blumenstrauß

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bouquet"?
"bouquet" is spelled B-O-U-Q-U-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is [bu.kɛ].
What does "bouquet" mean?
As a noun, "bouquet" means: Blumenstrauß
How do you pronounce "bouquet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bouquet" is [bu.kɛ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bouquet" come from?
"bouquet" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list