bouchage
\bu.ʃaʒ\
The verdict
“bouchage” is uncommon French (frequency #75,452 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,452
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de boucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouchage · bouchage · French
bouchage · rank #75,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,452
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Borja
Nearest frequency peer: Borja (-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 « bouchage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blanchisseu…
blanchisseuse
24,552 corpus weight
- blottie
blottie
24,551 corpus weight
- Borja
Borja
24,550 corpus weight
- bouchage
bouchage
24,549 corpus weight
- Boucicaut
Boucicaut
24,548 corpus weight
- bouffonnerie
bouffonnerie
24,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouchage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouchage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʃaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouchage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouchage is uncommon French at frequency #75,452 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʃaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
bouchage has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bouchage, spelled B-O-U-C-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de boucher.
- 2Ce qui sert à boucher.
- 3Terre gorgée d'eau et malaxée dont on se sert pour la coulée des métaux en fusion.
- 4Opération consistant à éliminer certaines parties transparentes d’une image par dépôt d’un produit opaque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouchage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque entrepreneur effectue ou, le cas échéant, fait effectuer à ses frais, les scellements, bouchages et raccords des réservations nécessaires aux travaux de son corps d'état.
Les moyens de bouchage possibles sont …
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).