boulanger
"boulanger" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“boulanger” is uncommon English (frequency #77,475 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,475
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eggplant; aubergine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-boulanger · boulanger · English
boulanger · rank #77,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,475
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH BPH
Nearest frequency peer: BPH (+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 “boulanger”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- boog
boog
22,532 corpus weight
- boondoggle
boondoggle
22,531 corpus weight
- Bostonian
Bostonian
22,528 corpus weight
- boulanger
boulanger
22,526 corpus weight
- BPH
BPH
22,525 corpus weight
- brickman
brickman
22,521 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “boulanger” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulanger |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “boulanger” in English
Rare enough to double-check
boulanger is uncommon English at frequency #77,475 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Eggplant; aubergine.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for boulanger, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Surinamese Dutch boulanger, from French beringène, from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân). Doublet of aubergine. The correct English form is boulanger, spelled B-O-U-L-A-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Eggplant; aubergine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boulanger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:boulanger.
Etymology
From Surinamese Dutch boulanger, from French beringène, from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân). Doublet of aubergine.
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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