boudeur
\bu.dœʁ\
The verdict
“boudeur” is uncommon French (frequency #81,825 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,825
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui boude habituellement, fréquemment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boudeur · boudeur · French
boudeur · rank #81,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,825
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bousculaient
Nearest frequency peer: bousculaient (+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 « boudeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bondissent
bondissent
18,180 corpus weight
- bornent
bornent
18,179 corpus weight
- boudeur
boudeur
18,176 corpus weight
- bousculaient
bousculaient
18,175 corpus weight
- boutiquiers
boutiquiers
18,173 corpus weight
- branlettes
branlettes
18,172 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boudeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boudeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boudeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boudeur is uncommon French at frequency #81,825 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui boude habituellement, fréquemment.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for boudeur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is boudeur, spelled B-O-U-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui boude habituellement, fréquemment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boudeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un vilain boudeur.
Fuyez les boudeurs.
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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