boudin
/buːˈdæ̃/
"boudin" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boudin” is uncommon English (frequency #88,141 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,141
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related cuisines.
Corpus desk
Index EN-boudin · boudin · English
boudin · rank #88,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,141
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bothy
Nearest frequency peer: bothy (-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 “boudin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Borgen
Borgen
11,863 corpus weight
- Botelho
Botelho
11,862 corpus weight
- bothy
bothy
11,861 corpus weight
- boudin
boudin
11,860 corpus weight
- bourguignon
bourguignon
11,859 corpus weight
- bouton
bouton
11,858 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “boudin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boudin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /buːˈdæ̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “boudin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
boudin is uncommon English at frequency #88,141 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /buːˈdæ̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for boudin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from French boudin. Doublet of pudding. Cf. also poutine. The correct English form is boudin, spelled B-O-U-D-I-N.
Definition
- 1A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related cuisines.
- 2A sausage in southern Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine, made from rice, ground pork (occasionally crawfish), and spices in a sausage casing.
- 3A structure formed by boudinage: one or a series of elongated, sausage-shaped section(s) in rock.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boudin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eurohucksters will find it difficult to wean the sausage lovers of Liége away from their bursting black Belgian boudins and toward Birmingham's humble bangers. Beer hawkers should fare no better.
The principal French boudin competition is held every year at Mortagne-au-Perche in Normandy, attracting hundreds […]
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French boudin. Doublet of pudding. Cf. also poutine.
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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