boucle
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,901
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
boucle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Anneau, cercle, rond, ligne courbe qui retourne à son point de départ. Pronounced \bukl\. It ranks #3,901 in French word frequency. Often confused with boue and boul.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boucle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bukl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for boucle is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bukl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,901 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for boucle, with forms such as "bboucle", "bocule", and "bouccle". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boue", "boul", "bouge", 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 boucle, spelled B-O-U-C-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anneau, cercle, rond, ligne courbe qui retourne à son point de départ.
- 2Objet de taille plus ou moins grande, ayant cette forme.
- 3Objet de taille plus ou moins grande, ayant cette forme.
- 4Objet de taille plus ou moins grande, ayant cette forme.
- 5Objet de taille plus ou moins grande, ayant cette forme.
- 6Objet de taille plus ou moins grande, ayant cette forme.
- 7Objet de taille plus ou moins grande, ayant cette forme.
- 8Objet de taille plus ou moins grande, ayant cette forme.
- 9Chose qui tourne, qui revient à son point de départ.
- 10Chose qui tourne, qui revient à son point de départ.
- 11Chose qui tourne, qui revient à son point de départ.
- 12Chose qui tourne, qui revient à son point de départ.
- 13Chose qui tourne, qui revient à son point de départ.
- 14Chose qui tourne, qui revient à son point de départ.
- 15Chose qui tourne, qui revient à son point de départ.
- 16Chose qui tourne, qui revient à son point de départ.
- 17Chose qui tourne, qui revient à son point de départ.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bboucle,bocule,bouccle,boucel,bouclle,boulce,buocle,obucle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for boucle
Misspelling Variants of "boucle"
Frequency rank: #3,901 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: