baudruche
\bo.dʁyʃ\
The verdict
“baudruche” is uncommon French (frequency #53,802 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,802
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Péritoine du cæcum de bœuf ou de mouton, lavé puis séché à l'étuve, qui sert à recouvrir ou à fabriquer certains objets, elle était aussi utilisée pour activer la cicatrisation des plaies cutanées ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-baudruche · baudruche · French
baudruche · rank #53,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,802
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beauval
Nearest frequency peer: Beauval (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « baudruche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balsamique
balsamique
46,202 corpus weight
- barquettes
barquettes
46,201 corpus weight
- baudruche
baudruche
46,199 corpus weight
- Beauval
Beauval
46,198 corpus weight
- Bellanger
Bellanger
46,197 corpus weight
- bignon
bignon
46,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baudruche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baudruche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo.dʁyʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baudruche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baudruche is uncommon French at frequency #53,802 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bo.dʁyʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
baudruche doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is baudruche, spelled B-A-U-D-R-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Péritoine du cæcum de bœuf ou de mouton, lavé puis séché à l'étuve, qui sert à recouvrir ou à fabriquer certains objets, elle était aussi utilisée pour activer la cicatrisation des plaies cutanées et pour fabriquer des préservatifs.
- 2Personne qui n’a que les apparences des mérites qu’on lui prête et qui se dégonfle aisément.
- 3Ballon de baudruche.
- 4Feuille mince ayant des propriétés similaires à la baudruche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baudruche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un ballon en baudruche.
On bat l’or entre deux feuilles de baudruche pour le réduire en poudre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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