Bouddha
\bu.da\
The verdict
“Bouddha” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,917. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,917
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Siddharta Gautama, fondateur historique d’une communauté de moines errants qui donnera naissance au bouddhisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouddha · Bouddha · French
Bouddha · rank #12,917 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,917
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boum
Nearest frequency peer: boum (+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 « Bouddha »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bavière
Bavière
87,089 corpus weight
- Beaulieu
Beaulieu
87,088 corpus weight
- bombardement
bombardement
87,086 corpus weight
- Bouddha
Bouddha
87,084 corpus weight
- boum
boum
87,083 corpus weight
- brusquement
brusquement
87,082 corpus weight
What this shows « Bouddha » 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 | Bouddha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bu.da\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bouddha »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Bouddha (IPA \bu.da\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,917 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Siddharta Gautama, fondateur historique d’une communauté de moines errants qui donnera naissance au bouddhisme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bouddha, with forms such as "bbouddha", "bodudha", and "bouddah". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Buddha", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Bouddha, spelled B-O-U-D-D-H-A.
Definition
- 1Siddharta Gautama, fondateur historique d’une communauté de moines errants qui donnera naissance au bouddhisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bouddha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne suis pas, pour mon compte, de ceux qui regardent Zoroastre comme un autre Bouddha; le fond de sa religion ou du moins de son Zend-Avesta est même beaucoup plus brahmanique et même çivaïste que bouddhiste.
Par les récits que les conteurs, voyageurs, caravaniers en avaient fait de siècle en siècle, Ouroz, Mokkhi et Zéré elle-même savaient qu’existaient à Bamyian des monuments immenses, élevés pour un ancien dieu du nom de Bouddha. Mais après tant de fatigues et d’épreuves, ils furent terrifiés par cet être géant. Un cavalier n’était qu’un insecte infime aupr…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbouddha
- bodudha
- bouddah
- bouddhha
- boudha
- boudhda
- buoddha
- obuddha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bouddha - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).