boucan
\bu.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“boucan” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,152
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où les Amérindiens fument leurs viandes et poissons ou gril de bois sur lequel ils les fument et les font sécher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boucan · boucan · French
boucan · rank #33,152 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,152
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bossais
Nearest frequency peer: bossais (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « boucan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- borg
borg
66,852 corpus weight
- boréales
boréales
66,851 corpus weight
- bossais
bossais
66,850 corpus weight
- boucan
boucan
66,849 corpus weight
- braquages
braquages
66,847 corpus weight
- braver
braver
66,846 corpus weight
What this shows « boucan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boucan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boucan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around boucan (IPA \bu.kɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,152 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for boucan, with forms such as "bboucan", "bocuan", and "bouacn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "boucs", "bouin", "busan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 boucan, spelled B-O-U-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Lieu où les Amérindiens fument leurs viandes et poissons ou gril de bois sur lequel ils les fument et les font sécher.
- 2Viande séchée à la fumée, viande boucanée.
- 3Lieu où les boucaniers fumaient la viande. ^([2])
- 4Gril pour boucaner. ^([2])
- 5Bâti en claie où l'on fumait la cassave. ^([2])
- 6Fumée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boucan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On avait rempli ce trou de bois, que l'on y avait laissé consumer jusqu'à ce qu'il fût en charbon, afin de bien échauffer toute la concavité de ce trou. On avait ensuite retiré le charbon, et la tortue avait été couchée sur le dos dans le fond, couverte de trois ou quatre pouces de sable chaud des environs, et puis du charbon que l'on avait retiré, avec u…
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboucan
- bocuan
- bouacn
- boucann
- bouccan
- boucna
- buocan
- obucan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boucan - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).