bolus
\bɔ.lys\
The verdict
“bolus” is uncommon French (frequency #81,820 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,820
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dose de médicament que l’on doit administrer au complet d’un seul coup, généralement par injection intraveineuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bolus · bolus · French
bolus · rank #81,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,820
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bondissent
Nearest frequency peer: bondissent (+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 « bolus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bodhi
bodhi
18,185 corpus weight
- Bogaert
Bogaert
18,184 corpus weight
- boisement
boisement
18,183 corpus weight
- bolus
bolus
18,181 corpus weight
- bondissent
bondissent
18,180 corpus weight
- bornent
bornent
18,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bolus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.lys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bolus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bolus is uncommon French at frequency #81,820 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.lys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bolus, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bolus, spelled B-O-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Dose de médicament que l’on doit administrer au complet d’un seul coup, généralement par injection intraveineuse.
- 2Masse que forment les aliments lorsqu’ils ont été soumis à la mastication et à l’action de la salive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bolus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si on procède par bolus intraveineux, on doit administrer le liquide progressivement et avec précaution afin de déterminer les pressions de remplissage optimales pour améliorer le débit cardiaque.
La pharmacologie aimerait tellement être une science exacte : toutes les huit minutes, la pompe émet un bip sourd et injecte un bolus de morphine de deux milligrammes en intraveineuse.
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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