bouée
\bwe\
The verdict
“bouée” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,786
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps flottant destiné à marquer la place d’une ancre, d’un corps-mort ou d’un plongeur, ou à indiquer un danger, une passe difficile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouee · bouée · French
bouée · rank #23,786 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,786
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boues
Nearest frequency peer: boues (-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 « bouée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bondir
bondir
76,218 corpus weight
- Borussia
Borussia
76,217 corpus weight
- boues
boues
76,216 corpus weight
- bouée
bouée
76,215 corpus weight
- branchés
branchés
76,214 corpus weight
- bâties
bâties
76,213 corpus weight
What this shows « bouée » 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 | bouée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bouée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bouée (IPA \bwe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,786 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouée, with forms such as "bbouée", "bouee", and "boueé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bue", "bout", "boxe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bouée, spelled B-O-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Corps flottant destiné à marquer la place d’une ancre, d’un corps-mort ou d’un plongeur, ou à indiquer un danger, une passe difficile.
- 2Flotteur qu’on jette à un homme en danger de mort.
- 3Flotteur que l’on accroche aux bras ou autour de la taille d’un enfant pour qu’il ne se noie pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On dit d’une bouée qui est toute prête à être mise à l’eau quand on jette l’ancre, qu’elle est à la veille.
Les uns [oiseaux] se placent à 40 et 50 lieues d’une terre inconnue et deviennent un indice certain pour le pilote qui les découvre, flottants sur l’onde comme les bouées d’une ancre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbouée
- bouee
- boueé
- boéue
- buoée
- obuée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouée - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).