bouchon d’oreille
\bu.ʃɔ̃ d‿ɔ.ʁɛj\
The verdict
“bouchon d’oreille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bouchon servant à protéger l’oreille des bruits, des intrusions d’eau, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouchon d’oreille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʃɔ̃ d‿ɔ.ʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bouchon d’oreille” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bouchon d’oreille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʃɔ̃ d‿ɔ.ʁɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bouchon d’oreille, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bouchon d’oreille, spelled B-O-U-C-H-O-N- -D-’-O-R-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Bouchon servant à protéger l’oreille des bruits, des intrusions d’eau, etc.
- 2Bouchon de cérumen.
- 3Ustensile servant à boucher les oreilles d'un cheval afin de le maintenir concentré, parfois équipé d'un dispositif permettant de les déboucher pendant une course dans le but de donner un regain d'énergie à la monture.
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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.
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Using “bouchon d’oreille”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-C-H-O-N- -D-’-O-R-E-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.