bouée de sauvetage
\bwe də sov.taʒ\
The verdict
“bouée de sauvetage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bouée de secours lancée à une personne pour la sauver de la noyade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouée de sauvetage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwe də sov.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bouée de sauvetage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bouée de sauvetage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bwe də sov.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bouée de sauvetage, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bouée de sauvetage, spelled B-O-U-É-E- -D-E- -S-A-U-V-E-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Bouée de secours lancée à une personne pour la sauver de la noyade.
- 2Personne ou chose qui sauve d’un danger, d’un risque.
- 3Adiposité abdominale, en particulier chez l’homme, poignée d’amour.→ voir obésité androïde
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bouée de sauvetage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-É-E- -D-E- -S-A-U-V-E-T-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bwe də sov.taʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.