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boucle

/buːˈkleɪ/noun

boucle is spelled B-O-U-C-L-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boucle means “Alternative spelling of bouclé” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of boucle is boucles or bouclés.

How many letters and syllables are in boucle?

Letters6: B-O-U-C-L-E
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is boucle?

Boucle appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce boucle?

  • /buːˈkleɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of boucle

  • boucles plural
  • bouclés plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does boucle mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of bouclé.

noun

as bouclé
  1. 1

    A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.

  2. 2

    Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Boucle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense fabric:

LanguageWords
GermanBouclé
Spanishbucle

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does boucle come from?

From French bouclé, from boucler (“to buckle”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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