bouclées
\bu.kle\
The verdict
“bouclées” is uncommon French (frequency #64,282 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,282
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de bouclé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouclees · bouclées · French
bouclées · rank #64,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,282
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Botticelli
Nearest frequency peer: Botticelli (-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 « bouclées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bizness
bizness
35,723 corpus weight
- blasphèmes
blasphèmes
35,722 corpus weight
- bordier
bordier
35,721 corpus weight
- Botticelli
Botticelli
35,720 corpus weight
- bouclées
bouclées
35,719 corpus weight
- bozon
bozon
35,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouclées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouclées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.kle\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouclées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouclées is uncommon French at frequency #64,282 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bu.kle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de bouclé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bouclées, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bouclées, spelled B-O-U-C-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de bouclé.
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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