Bocuse
\bɔ.kyz\
The verdict
“Bocuse” is uncommon French (frequency #50,678 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,678
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bocuse · Bocuse · French
Bocuse · rank #50,678 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,678
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blanchissage
Nearest frequency peer: blanchissage (-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 « Bocuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- biotope
biotope
49,326 corpus weight
- blame
blame
49,325 corpus weight
- blanchissage
blanchissage
49,324 corpus weight
- Bocuse
Bocuse
49,323 corpus weight
- boh
boh
49,322 corpus weight
- bolo
bolo
49,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bocuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bocuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.kyz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bocuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bocuse is uncommon French at frequency #50,678 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bɔ.kyz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Bocuse in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Bocuse, spelled B-O-C-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bocuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des habitués, comme Denny Imbroisi, ou des nouveaux, comme la brigade de Paul Bocuse, venue exprès de Lyon, se succéderont jusqu’à dimanche sous la structure du Grand Palais éphémère (7ᵉ).
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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