Bouaké
\bwa.ke\
The verdict
“Bouaké” is uncommon French (frequency #55,099 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,099
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de Côte d’Ivoire, deuxième ville la plus peuplée du pays après Abidjan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouake · Bouaké · French
Bouaké · rank #55,099 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,099
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH borner
Nearest frequency peer: borner (-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 « Bouaké »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bombers
bombers
44,905 corpus weight
- bonbonnes
bonbonnes
44,904 corpus weight
- borner
borner
44,903 corpus weight
- Bouaké
Bouaké
44,902 corpus weight
- bourrasques
bourrasques
44,901 corpus weight
- brainstormi…
brainstorming
44,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bouaké » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bouaké |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bwa.ke\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bouaké » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bouaké is uncommon French at frequency #55,099 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bwa.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune de Côte d’Ivoire, deuxième ville la plus peuplée du pays après Abidjan.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bouaké in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Bouaké, spelled B-O-U-A-K-É.
Definition
- 1Commune de Côte d’Ivoire, deuxième ville la plus peuplée du pays après Abidjan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bouaké appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Située à l'interface forêt-savane, ce qui en fait un pôle naturel d'échanges, Bouaké est une ville à part dans le paysage du réseau des villes ivoiriennes. Elle tire avantage de sa situation pour devenir une ville importante du réseau urbain.
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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