boudin
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,672
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
boudin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Boyau rempli de sang et de graisse de porc, avec l’assaisonnement nécessaire. Pronounced \bu.dɛ̃\. Often confused with butin and bovin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boudin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for boudin is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.dɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,672 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for boudin, with forms such as "bboudin", "boduin", and "bouddin". 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, "butin", "bovin", "burin", 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 boudin, spelled B-O-U-D-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Boyau rempli de sang et de graisse de porc, avec l’assaisonnement nécessaire.
- 2Cordon de fibre textile, avant l’étirage et la torsion.
- 3Coussinet de grosse toile empli de sable qui maintient les plats et les assiettes à bord des navires dans les grands roulis.
- 4Bourrelet de la partie intérieure d’une roue, qui assure le guidage sur la voie ferrée.
- 5Bourrelet de cuir qui fait le tour du navire à la hauteur du second pont.
- 6Gros cordon de la base d’une colonne.
- 7Pneu d’un véhicule.
- 8Petit porte-manteau de cuir, en forme de valise, qu’on attache sur le dos d’un cheval.
- 9Ressort qui est formé d’une spirale de fil de fer, d’acier, de cuivre.
- 10Boucle de cheveux en spirale qui est ferme et un peu longue.
- 11Mèche avec laquelle on mettait le feu à la mine.
- 12Mot qui désigne beaucoup de choses ou de réalisations qui se présentent sous forme d’un cordon ou d’un bourrelet.
- 13Fille disgracieuse ; laideron.
- 14Qui ressemble à un boudin.
- 15Traversin.
- 16Surnom des auxiliaires de police en Suède.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bboudin,boduin,bouddin,boudinn,boudni,bouidn,buodin,obudin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for boudin
Misspelling Variants of "boudin"
Frequency rank: #18,672 in French
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