bistouille
\bis.tuj\
The verdict
“bistouille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Café chaud auquel on ajoute de l’eau-de-vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bistouille · bistouille · French
bistouille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bistouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bis.tuj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bistouille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bis.tuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bistouille in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bistouille, spelled B-I-S-T-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Café chaud auquel on ajoute de l’eau-de-vie.
- 2Boisson d’origine douteuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bistouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soir, comme maintenant, il aurait eu besoin, pour posséder tout son mordant, d’une bistouille supplémentaire.
Au comptoir des cafés devant la tasse de bistouille du matin, dans la douce chaleur d'une cuisine devant le bol de chicorée posé sur la toile cirée, à la bibliothèque municipale où il va chercher quelques livres, il en rencontre qui lui confient sans réticence […] qu'ils rêvent d'un pays où les travailleurs sont au pouvoir […].
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.