beaucoup
/boʊˈkuː/
"beaucoup" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beaucoup” is uncommon English (frequency #77,449 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a determiner. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,449
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Much, many, a lot of.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beaucoup · beaucoup · English
beaucoup · rank #77,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,449
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bedbug
Nearest frequency peer: bedbug (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “beaucoup”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- barroom
barroom
22,557 corpus weight
- beaucoup
beaucoup
22,552 corpus weight
- bedbug
bedbug
22,551 corpus weight
- Behan
Behan
22,550 corpus weight
- Bercow
Bercow
22,548 corpus weight
- Bethan
Bethan
22,547 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “beaucoup” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beaucoup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | /boʊˈkuː/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “beaucoup” in English
Rare enough to double-check
beaucoup is uncommon English at frequency #77,449 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as adeterminer, transcribed /boʊˈkuː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Much, many, a lot of.".
No misspelling variants are generated for beaucoup in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French beaucoup, early 20th century. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War. The pronunciation /ˈbuːkuː/ was influenced by Louisiana French boucoup, a variant. The correct English form is beaucoup, spelled B-E-A-U-C-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1Much, many, a lot of.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beaucoup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You know that cost beaucoup bucks!
“I bet the skipper’s been drinkin^([sic]) beaucoup highballs an^([sic]) thinks Brooklyn’s Hoboken.”
Etymology
Borrowed from French beaucoup, early 20th century. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War. The pronunciation /ˈbuːkuː/ was influenced by Louisiana French boucoup, a variant.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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