boucher
\bu.ʃe\
The verdict
“boucher” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,931
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fermer une ouverture ou ce qui présente une ouverture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boucher · boucher · French
boucher · rank #6,931 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,931
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bonnet
Nearest frequency peer: bonnet (-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 « boucher »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Biologie
Biologie
93,072 corpus weight
- bonnet
bonnet
93,071 corpus weight
- boucher
boucher
93,070 corpus weight
- bouffer
bouffer
93,069 corpus weight
- boys
boys
93,068 corpus weight
- char
char
93,067 corpus weight
What this shows « boucher » 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 | boucher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boucher »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around boucher (IPA \bu.ʃe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,931 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for boucher, with forms such as "bboucher", "bocuher", and "bouccher". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bouger", "boucle", "bouder", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is boucher, spelled B-O-U-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fermer une ouverture ou ce qui présente une ouverture.
- 2Payer quelque dette, compenser ou dédommager de quelque perte.
- 3Se fermer.
- 4Faire son lit ; ajuster les draps et les couvertures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boucher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les couches supérieures étant tout-à-fait meubles, il eût fallu un orifice très large à cette excavation pour que les éboulements ne la bouchassent pas en même temps qu'on la creusait.
Ceux-ci enterrent, dans une cachette creusée sous l'escalier de la chambre du sacristain, la châsse de Notre-Dame, tous les reliquaires, les bijoux, les chapes de drap d'or, et bouchent le trou avec du plâtre; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboucher
- bocuher
- bouccher
- boucehr
- boucherr
- bouchher
- bouchre
- bouhcer
- buocher
- obucher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boucher - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).