boules
noun
boules is spelled B-O-U-L-E-S: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boules means “bowls; a game played with metal balls” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in boules?
| Letters | 6: B-O-U-L-E-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 103,949th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is boules?
Boules appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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).
What rhymes with boules?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as boules.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: blouse, obelus.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does boules mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
bowls; a game played with metal balls.
- 2
plural of boule
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Boules in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense game played with metal balls:
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 boules come from?
In the sense of the game, a shortening of French jeu de boules.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).