boueuses
\bu.øz\
The verdict
“boueuses” is uncommon French (frequency #65,749 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,749
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de boueux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boueuses · boueuses · French
boueuses · rank #65,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,749
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bornage
Nearest frequency peer: bornage (-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 « boueuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- borda
borda
34,255 corpus weight
- Bormes
Bormes
34,254 corpus weight
- bornage
bornage
34,253 corpus weight
- boueuses
boueuses
34,252 corpus weight
- bougres
bougres
34,251 corpus weight
- bounce
bounce
34,250 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boueuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boueuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.øz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boueuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boueuses is uncommon French at frequency #65,749 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bu.øz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de boueux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for boueuses in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is boueuses, spelled B-O-U-E-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de boueux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boueuses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au printemps, lorsque, sous un pâle rayon de soleil, les premières pousses des légumes commençaient à percer à travers les couches boueuses de nos jardins, elle se dilatait, à cette vue, en son cœur de propriétaire : — Ah ! disait-elle, voilà que ça commence à « débourbiller ! »
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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