boug
\buɡ\
The verdict
“boug” is uncommon French (frequency #91,461 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,461
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gars ; mec ; type.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boug · boug · French
boug · rank #91,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,461
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boundary
Nearest frequency peer: boundary (+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 « boug »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bonnemaison
Bonnemaison
8,544 corpus weight
- Bonneton
Bonneton
8,543 corpus weight
- boostés
boostés
8,542 corpus weight
- boug
boug
8,540 corpus weight
- boundary
boundary
8,539 corpus weight
- bouquiniste
bouquiniste
8,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boug » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buɡ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boug » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boug is uncommon French at frequency #91,461 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gars ; mec ; type.".
boug doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 boug, spelled B-O-U-G.
Definition
- 1Gars ; mec ; type.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boug appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n'avait pas dû être le seul à se lâcher sur le net. Il avait dû en avoir des bougs comme lui, énervés par le Député-Maire, à cracher leur fiel sur leur mur virtuel...
Je parle même pas des bougs camouflés en honnêtes travailleurs, et qui zieutent ceux qui ont de la maille en attendant le bon moment. C'est ça qui me vénèr le plus, gros.
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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