bouchons
\bu.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“bouchons” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,645. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,645
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bouchon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouchons · bouchons · French
bouchons · rank #10,645 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,645
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bilingue
Nearest frequency peer: bilingue (-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 « bouchons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- balader
balader
89,359 corpus weight
- bilingue
bilingue
89,357 corpus weight
- bouchons
bouchons
89,356 corpus weight
- boulanger
boulanger
89,355 corpus weight
- Bourges
Bourges
89,354 corpus weight
- briller
briller
89,353 corpus weight
What this shows « bouchons » 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 | bouchons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bouchons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bouchons (IPA \bu.ʃɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,645 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bouchon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouchons, with forms such as "bbouchons", "bocuhons", and "boucchons". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "boutons", "boulons", "bourbons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bouchons, spelled B-O-U-C-H-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bouchon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bouchons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rencontre d’une famille touareg ou mieux touareguisée, car les habitants sont fortement métissés de Soudanais, pêche de poissons dans les gueltas ou sources naturelles, poissons aujourd’hui déposés au Musée d’histoire naturelle, activités artisanales dans l’oasis de Djanet, centre administratif de cette région, au milieu d’une oasis d’un million de dattie…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbouchons
- bocuhons
- boucchons
- bouchhons
- bouchnos
- bouchonns
- bouchonss
- bouchosn
- boucohns
- bouhcons
- buochons
- obuchons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouchons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).