bookmaker
\buk.mɛ.kœʁ\
The verdict
“bookmaker” is uncommon French (frequency #56,451 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,451
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui qui fait métier d’accepter les paris à la cote dans les courses de chevaux et qui les inscrit sur un livre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bookmaker |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buk.mɛ.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bookmaker” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bookmaker is uncommon French at frequency #56,451 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buk.mɛ.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui fait métier d’accepter les paris à la cote dans les courses de chevaux et qui les inscrit sur un livre.".
bookmaker doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 bookmaker, spelled B-O-O-K-M-A-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait métier d’accepter les paris à la cote dans les courses de chevaux et qui les inscrit sur un livre.
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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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Using “bookmaker”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-O-K-M-A-K-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \buk.mɛ.kœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.