boudeuse
\bu.døz\
The verdict
“boudeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #62,104 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,104
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui boude habituellement, fréquemment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boudeuse · boudeuse · French
boudeuse · rank #62,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,104
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bottle
Nearest frequency peer: bottle (-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 « boudeuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boonen
Boonen
37,900 corpus weight
- Bost
Bost
37,899 corpus weight
- bottle
bottle
37,898 corpus weight
- boudeuse
boudeuse
37,897 corpus weight
- Bourvil
Bourvil
37,896 corpus weight
- boycottent
boycottent
37,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boudeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boudeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.døz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boudeuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boudeuse is uncommon French at frequency #62,104 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.døz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for boudeuse, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is boudeuse, spelled B-O-U-D-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui boude habituellement, fréquemment.
- 2Siège à deux places adossées et séparées par un dossier, par opposition avec la causeuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boudeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et moi, comme une boudeuse, ou plutôt comme une peureuse, je ne peux pas me décider à aller lui dire : « Me voilà ! »
La boudeuse est constituée de deux fauteuils dos-à-dos séparés par un seul et même dossier. Deux personnes assises sur la boudeuse ne sauraient se parler se tournant le dos, d’où ce nom très imagé.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).