bouder
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,254
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bouder is aFrenchverb. It means: Témoigner par une certaine expression du visage ou par son silence que l’on est mécontent de quelque chose. Pronounced \bu.de\. Often confused with boue and bouge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouder is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,254 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bouder, with forms such as "bbouder", "boduer", and "boudder". 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", "bouge", "boule", 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 bouder, spelled B-O-U-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Témoigner par une certaine expression du visage ou par son silence que l’on est mécontent de quelque chose.
- 2Faire comme l’enfant qui, par caprice ou mutinerie, ne veut pas manger.
- 3Ne pas jouer, pour le joueur qui n’a pas de numéro à placer.
- 4Montrer qu'on est mécontent de quelque chose, de quelqu’un.
- 5Rechigner ; renâcler.
- 6Se dit d'un arbre qui ne profite pas.
- 7Se montrer mutuellement que l’on est mécontent.
- 8Ne pas participer, ne pas être présent à quelque chose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbouder,boduer,boudder,bouderr,bouedr,buoder,obuder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bouder
Misspelling Variants of "bouder"
Frequency rank: #29,254 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: