bouchon
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,613
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
bouchon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet qui sert à boucher, en particulier des bouteilles. Pronounced \bu.ʃɔ̃\. It ranks #9,613 in French word frequency. Often confused with bouton and boulon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouchon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.ʃɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,613 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for bouchon, with forms such as "bbouchon", "bocuhon", and "boucchon". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "bouton", "boulon", "bougon", 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 bouchon, spelled B-O-U-C-H-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet qui sert à boucher, en particulier des bouteilles.
- 2Quantité correspondant au contenu d’un bouchon.
- 3Flotteur d’une ligne de pêche.
- 4Ce qui obstrue une voie de circulation.
- 5Ce qui obstrue un tuyau.
- 6Phénomène qui empêche ou ralentit le libre accomplissement d'un grand nombre d'actions ayant des destinations apparentées.
- 7Adaptateur USB destiné aux communications sans-fil (wifi, Bluetooth, infrarouge).
- 8Poignée de paille, ou de foin, tortillée.
- 9Tas, paquet de linge, ou de vêtements, froissés, chiffonnés, tortillés.
- 10Rameau de verdure, couronne de lierre ou quelque autre signe qu’on attache à une maison pour faire connaître qu’on y vend du vin.
- 11Restaurant ; auberge ; cabaret.
- 12Petite bouchée de viande de porc entourée de nouilles cuites à la vapeur que l’on sert généralement en tant qu’apéritif chaud dans certaines îles de l’océan Indien et notamment sur l’île de La Réunion.
- 13Terme d'affection à l'égard d'un enfant ou d'une jeune fille
- 14Buisson.
- 15Plaquage rugueux, violent.
- 16Code qui n'effectue aucun traitement et retourne toujours le même résultat.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbouchon,bocuhon,boucchon,bouchhon,bouchno,bouchonn,boucohn,bouhcon,buochon,obuchon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bouchon
Misspelling Variants of "bouchon"
Frequency rank: #9,613 in French
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Nearby French words
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