boueuse
\bu.øz\
The verdict
“boueuse” is uncommon French (frequency #55,787 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,787
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Employée chargée d’enlever chaque matin les ordures ménagères et les boues des rues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boueuse · boueuse · French
boueuse · rank #55,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,787
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouchez
Nearest frequency peer: bouchez (-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 « boueuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bony
bony
44,217 corpus weight
- booty
booty
44,216 corpus weight
- bouchez
bouchez
44,215 corpus weight
- boueuse
boueuse
44,214 corpus weight
- boulez
boulez
44,213 corpus weight
- breveter
breveter
44,212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boueuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boueuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.øz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boueuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boueuse is uncommon French at frequency #55,787 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.øz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Employée chargée d’enlever chaque matin les ordures ménagères et les boues des rues.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for boueuse, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boueuse, spelled B-O-U-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Employée chargée d’enlever chaque matin les ordures ménagères et les boues des rues.
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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