à gros bouillons

/\a ɡʁo bu.jɔ̃\/ adv

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

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à gros bouillons is anFrenchadv. It means: Fortement, en parlant d’un liquide qui bout. Pronounced \a ɡʁo bu.jɔ̃\.

Key facts for à gros bouillons
PropertyValue
Headwordà gros bouillons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a ɡʁo bu.jɔ̃\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à gros bouillons is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à gros bouillons is 16 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a ɡʁo bu.jɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à gros bouillons in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is à gros bouillons, spelled À- -G-R-O-S- -B-O-U-I-L-L-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fortement, en parlant d’un liquide qui bout.
  2. 2
    Abondamment, en parlant d’un liquide qui coule.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à gros bouillons"?
"à gros bouillons" is spelled À- -G-R-O-S- -B-O-U-I-L-L-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a ɡʁo bu.jɔ̃\.
What does "à gros bouillons" mean?
As an adv, "à gros bouillons" means: Fortement, en parlant d’un liquide qui bout.
How do you pronounce "à gros bouillons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à gros bouillons" is \a ɡʁo bu.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à gros bouillons" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.