bouboule
\bu.bul\
The verdict
“bouboule” is uncommon French (frequency #63,571 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,571
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boubouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouboule · bouboule · French
bouboule · rank #63,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,571
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bosque
Nearest frequency peer: bosque (-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 « bouboule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Borromée
Borromée
36,433 corpus weight
- bosque
bosque
36,431 corpus weight
- bouboule
bouboule
36,430 corpus weight
- boudet
boudet
36,429 corpus weight
- bouillabais…
bouillabaisse
36,428 corpus weight
- bound
bound
36,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouboule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouboule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.bul\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouboule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouboule is uncommon French at frequency #63,571 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bu.bul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bouboule in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bouboule, spelled B-O-U-B-O-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boubouler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boubouler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe boubouler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe boubouler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe boubouler.
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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