bouchot
French, noun/bu.ʃo/
bouchot is spelled B-O-U-C-H-O-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouchot is a French masculine noun meaning “mussel bed (of vertical posts)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pieu ou piquet de bois planté dans la mer et sur lequel sont élevés des coquillages, en particulier les «…”.
What does bouchot mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemussel bed (of vertical posts)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pieu ou piquet de bois planté dans la mer et sur lequel sont élevés des coquillages, en particulier les « moules de bouchot ». 2. Alignement de pieux, parc destiné à cet élevage. 3. Parc en bord mer constitué de branchage dans lequel on mettait des poissons.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bouchot
- bouchots plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bouchot?
- /bu.ʃo/
- \bu.ʃo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bouchot in French?
bouchot appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).