beaucoups
\boʊ.ˈkuz\
The verdict
“beaucoups” is uncommon French (frequency #56,444 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,444
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de beaucoup.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beaucoups · beaucoups · French
beaucoups · rank #56,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,444
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beatriz
Nearest frequency peer: Beatriz (-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 « beaucoups »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bcbg
bcbg
43,559 corpus weight
- Beatriz
Beatriz
43,558 corpus weight
- beaucoups
beaucoups
43,557 corpus weight
- benêt
benêt
43,556 corpus weight
- biodynamie
biodynamie
43,554 corpus weight
- Blouin
Blouin
43,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « beaucoups » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beaucoups |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \boʊ.ˈkuz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « beaucoups » en français
Rare enough to double-check
beaucoups is uncommon French at frequency #56,444 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \boʊ.ˈkuz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de beaucoup.".
beaucoups doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is beaucoups, spelled B-E-A-U-C-O-U-P-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de beaucoup.
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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