boléro
\bɔ.le.ʁo\
The verdict
“boléro” is uncommon French (frequency #53,811 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,811
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Air de danse espagnol joué à la guitare sur un rythme à trois temps, qui accompagne un couple de danseurs jouant des castagnettes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bolero · boléro · French
boléro · rank #53,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,811
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blush
Nearest frequency peer: blush (-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 « boléro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blanchot
blanchot
46,193 corpus weight
- bleuté
bleuté
46,192 corpus weight
- blush
blush
46,191 corpus weight
- boléro
boléro
46,190 corpus weight
- bonobo
bonobo
46,189 corpus weight
- boobs
boobs
46,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boléro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boléro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.le.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boléro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boléro is uncommon French at frequency #53,811 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.le.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for boléro, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 boléro, spelled B-O-L-É-R-O.
Definition
- 1Air de danse espagnol joué à la guitare sur un rythme à trois temps, qui accompagne un couple de danseurs jouant des castagnettes.
- 2Danse que cet air accompagne.
- 3Petite veste de femme d’origine espagnole.
- 4Petit chapeau rond espagnol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boléro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le costume des femmes est d’un éclat tout asiatique ; il se compose d'une culotte bouffante, serrée à la cheville, d’un boléro très ouvert qui laisse la poitrine libre dans la mince étoffe.
Si l’on m’avait dit que la conversation que je commençai alors avec la Perruche au sujet d’un boléro qu’elle voulait s’acheter devait se terminer comme on va voir !
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).