bouquet
[bu.kɛ]
The verdict
“bouquet” is an uncommon German word, ranked #56,018 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #56,018
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Blumenstrauß
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouquet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bu.kɛ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bouquet” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bouquet is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bu.kɛ]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,018 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
- 1Blumenstrauß
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.
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Using “bouquet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-O-U-Q-U-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [bu.kɛ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.