bain de bouche
\bɛ̃ də buʃ\
The verdict
“bain de bouche” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Opération consistant à baigner les dents, les gencives et les muqueuses de la bouche avec une solution de manière à améliorer l’hygiène bucco-dentaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bain de bouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ̃ də buʃ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bain de bouche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bain de bouche is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ̃ də buʃ\. 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 misspelling variants are generated for bain de bouche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 bain de bouche, spelled B-A-I-N- -D-E- -B-O-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Opération consistant à baigner les dents, les gencives et les muqueuses de la bouche avec une solution de manière à améliorer l’hygiène bucco-dentaire.
- 2Solution utilisée pour une telle opération.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-I-N- -D-E- -B-O-U-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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