Bouchard
\bu.ʃaʁ\
The verdict
“Bouchard” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,530. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,530
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouchard · Bouchard · French
Bouchard · rank #11,530 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,530
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baignoire
Nearest frequency peer: baignoire (-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 « Bouchard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aurore
aurore
88,474 corpus weight
- Autrichien
Autrichien
88,473 corpus weight
- baignoire
baignoire
88,472 corpus weight
- Bouchard
Bouchard
88,471 corpus weight
- brasserie
brasserie
88,470 corpus weight
- calories
calories
88,469 corpus weight
What this shows « Bouchard » 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 | Bouchard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʃaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bouchard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Bouchard (IPA \bu.ʃaʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,530 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bouchard, with forms such as "bbouchard", "bocuhard", and "boucahrd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "boucher", "bouvard", "boulard", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Bouchard, spelled B-O-U-C-H-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bouchard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur les ondes de la radio de Radio-Canada, Serge Bouchard nous aura longtemps accompagnés de ses histoires fascinantes sur l’Amérique.
Puis des dramaturges apparaissent, Normand Chaurette, René-Daniel Dubois, Michel Marc Bouchard, qui écrivent une langue déjoualisée, allant vers d’autres mondes ; l’Ailleurs et l’Étranger se profilent dans le paysage dramaturgique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbouchard
- bocuhard
- boucahrd
- boucchard
- bouchadr
- bouchardd
- boucharrd
- bouchhard
- bouchrad
- bouhcard
- buochard
- obuchard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bouchard - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bouchard", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).