bouche
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,354
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bouche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Organe de l'être humain, composé de deux lèvres horizontales situées au bas du visage, lui servant notamment à ingurgiter de la nourriture et de la boisson, à parler, à embrasser et à faire des exp... Pronounced \buʃ\. It ranks #1,354 in French word frequency. Often confused with boue and bouh.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouche is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \buʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,354 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for bouche, with forms such as "bbouche", "bocuhe", and "boucche". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boue", "bouh", "Buch", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bouche, spelled B-O-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Organe de l'être humain, composé de deux lèvres horizontales situées au bas du visage, lui servant notamment à ingurgiter de la nourriture et de la boisson, à parler, à embrasser et à faire des expressions faciales.
- 2Étape dans l’analyse sensorielle et la dégustation du vin.
- 3Personne, par allusion à la nourriture qu’elle consomme.
- 4Nourriture.
- 5Service, officier de la bouche du roi : service, officier chargés autrefois de tout ce qui concernait les repas du roi et de sa famille.
- 6Élargissement d’un cours d’eau lorsqu’il se joint à une mer.
- 7Détroit.
- 8Cavité plus ou moins large servant d’accès pour entrer ou sortir.
- 9Cavité plus ou moins large servant d’accès pour entrer ou sortir.
- 10Cavité plus ou moins large servant d’accès pour entrer ou sortir.
- 11Cavité plus ou moins large servant d’accès pour entrer ou sortir.
- 12Embouchure.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbouche,bocuhe,boucche,bouceh,bouchhe,bouhce,buoche,obuche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bouche
Misspelling Variants of "bouche"
Frequency rank: #1,354 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: