boudin
/buːˈdæ̃/
"boudin" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boudin” is uncommon English (frequency #88,141 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,141
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related cuisines.
| 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) |
Where “boudin” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
boudin is uncommon English at frequency #88,141 among 31,241 “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.
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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Using “boudin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-U-D-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.