boucherie

\buʃ.ʁi\

/\buʃ.ʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“boucherie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,332
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endroit pour abattre les bêtes dont la chair doit être vendue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-boucherie · boucherie · French

boucherie · rank #13,332 · 12 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,332
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH barreaux

Nearest frequency peer: barreaux (-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 « boucherie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « boucherie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

boucherie vs bouchers
78% similar
boucherie vs boucheries
90% similar
boucherie vs boucher
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for boucherie
PropertyValue
Headwordboucherie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\buʃ.ʁi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#13,332
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boucherie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).boucheriese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « barreaux » (#13,331), « BP » (#13,333), « Brexit » (#13,334). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « boucherie » est au #13,332. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around boucherie (IPA \buʃ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,332 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for boucherie, with forms such as "bboucherie", "bocuherie", and "bouccherie". 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, "bouchers", "boucheries", "boucher", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boucherie, spelled B-O-U-C-H-E-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Endroit pour abattre les bêtes dont la chair doit être vendue.
  2. 2
    Activité commerciale que pratiquent les bouchers, qui consiste à faire rassir, découper et vendre au détail de la viande crue.
  3. 3
    Établissement commercial où œuvre le boucher.
  4. 4
    Tuerie, massacre, carnage.
  5. 5
    Réunion pour tuer le cochon ensemble et se partager la viande.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how boucherie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quand on fait couvrir les vaches dans le but d’avoir des veaux très-jeunes à envoyer à la boucherie et du lait à vendre en nature, on les fait saillir par de très-jeunes taureaux ; mais les veaux provenant de cet accouplement ont un tempérament lymphatique et sont plus maladifs que s’ils étaient issus d’un père plus robuste.
  2. Remugle de la boucherie qui tient le « bouillon et bœuf », fade et terrible parfum des bêtes sacrifiées ; note résineuse, forestière de la sciure de sapin répandue sur le dallage.

Synonyms

abattoirbain de sangcarnagemassacretuerie

This word in other languages

abattoir(English)carnicería(Español)Schlachthof(Deutsch)açougue(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bboucherie
  • bocuherie
  • bouccherie
  • boucehrie
  • boucheire
  • boucherei
  • boucherrie
  • bouchherie
  • bouchreie
  • bouhcerie
  • buocherie
  • obucherie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boucherie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

bboucherie1bocuherie2bouccherie1boucehrie2boucheire2boucherei2boucherrie1bouchherie1
Edit distance from "boucherie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "boucherie"?
"boucherie" is spelled B-O-U-C-H-E-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \buʃ.ʁi\.
What does "boucherie" mean?
As a noun, "boucherie" means: Endroit pour abattre les bêtes dont la chair doit être vendue.
What words are commonly confused with "boucherie"?
"boucherie" is commonly confused with "bouchers", "boucheries", "boucher". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "boucherie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "boucherie" is \buʃ.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "boucherie" come from?
"boucherie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "boucherie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

appréciée#13,320approuver#13,319anomalies#13,312dirigeait#13,354

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

charisme12 variantsarriverait12 variantsanalyste12 variantsdominent12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list