bolle
The verdict
“bolle” is uncommon French (frequency #71,296 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,296
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une personne qui impressionne par l’étendue ses connaissances, ses capacités intellectuelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bolle · bolle · French
bolle · rank #71,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,296
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boiter
Nearest frequency peer: boiter (-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 « bolle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boc
boc
28,708 corpus weight
- bogues
bogues
28,707 corpus weight
- boiter
boiter
28,706 corpus weight
- bolle
bolle
28,705 corpus weight
- Bonduelle
Bonduelle
28,704 corpus weight
- bonita
bonita
28,703 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bolle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bolle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bolle is uncommon French at frequency #71,296 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Une personne qui impressionne par l’étendue ses connaissances, ses capacités intellectuelles.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bolle in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bolle, spelled B-O-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Une personne qui impressionne par l’étendue ses connaissances, ses capacités intellectuelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bolle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon cousin Marcel aussi a eu un parcours impressionnant. […]. Et, dans ses temps libres, il regarde des tutos sur les vaccins sur YouTube. Une bolle ! Comme disait ma tante Gisèle, « Où c’est que tu vas chercher tout ça ? »
Synonyms
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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