bouchain
\bu.ʃɛ̃\
The verdict
“bouchain” is uncommon French (frequency #79,996 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,996
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie du bordé d’un bateau, représentant la zone intermédiaire entre les fonds et les murailles
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouchain · bouchain · French
bouchain · rank #79,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,996
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourdonne
Nearest frequency peer: bourdonne (+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 « bouchain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bonnin
Bonnin
20,008 corpus weight
- Borinage
Borinage
20,007 corpus weight
- bouchain
bouchain
20,005 corpus weight
- bourdonne
bourdonne
20,004 corpus weight
- bouté
bouté
20,003 corpus weight
- Bouvines
Bouvines
20,002 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouchain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouchain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʃɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouchain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouchain is uncommon French at frequency #79,996 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʃɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie du bordé d’un bateau, représentant la zone intermédiaire entre les fonds et les murailles".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bouchain in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bouchain, spelled B-O-U-C-H-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Partie du bordé d’un bateau, représentant la zone intermédiaire entre les fonds et les murailles
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouchain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la suite de mauvais temps en cours de voyage, le joint de trou d’homme de l’un des ballasts a présenté une fuite d’eau qui s’est écoulée dans le bouchain.
Il avait l’air achevé, ses bouchains ronds étaient tous solidement assemblés, ses plats-bords attendaient de recevoir le pont et l’espèce de roof dont les structures reposaient au milieu d’un fouillis de bambous et de bois destinés à la mâture.
This word in other languages
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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