bouclage
\bu.klaʒ\
The verdict
“bouclage” is uncommon French (frequency #50,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,095
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de boucler ; clôture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouclage · bouclage · French
bouclage · rank #50,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,095
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bonis
Nearest frequency peer: bonis (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bouclage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blogging
blogging
49,909 corpus weight
- Bolchoï
Bolchoï
49,908 corpus weight
- bonis
bonis
49,907 corpus weight
- bouclage
bouclage
49,906 corpus weight
- bour
bour
49,905 corpus weight
- boutonnière
boutonnière
49,904 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouclage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouclage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.klaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouclage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouclage is uncommon French at frequency #50,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.klaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bouclage in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bouclage, spelled B-O-U-C-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de boucler ; clôture.
- 2Passage en boucle.
- 3Pose d’une boucle d’identification à l’oreille des ovins ou des caprins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouclage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bouclage du journal se fait vers les trois heures du matin.
Le bouclage d’un vaste secteur évacué pose des problèmes techniques complexes, qui ne sont en partie surmontables que dans l’hypothèse où l’on vise un objectif d’étanchéité totale.
This word in other languages
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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