bouche-à-bouche
\buʃ.a.buʃ\
The verdict
“bouche-à-bouche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique de respiration artificielle qui consiste à insuffler de l'air de ses propres poumons dans la bouche de la victime, tout en lui pinçant le nez.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouche-a-bouche · bouche-à-bouche · French
bouche-à-bouche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouche-à-bouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʃ.a.buʃ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bouche-à-bouche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \buʃ.a.buʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Technique de respiration artificielle qui consiste à insuffler de l'air de ses propres poumons dans la bouche de la victime, tout en lui pinçant le nez.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bouche-à-bouche, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 bouche-à-bouche, spelled B-O-U-C-H-E---À---B-O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Technique de respiration artificielle qui consiste à insuffler de l'air de ses propres poumons dans la bouche de la victime, tout en lui pinçant le nez.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bouche-à-bouche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ventilation par le bouche-à-bouche (BAB) est le moyen le plus simple pour un secouriste d’administrer à une victime en arrêt ventilatoire une quantité d’air permettant d’assurer une ventilation minimale.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.