bougeais
\bu.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“bougeais” is uncommon French (frequency #80,939 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,939
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bouger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bougeais · bougeais · French
bougeais · rank #80,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,939
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bouffard
Nearest frequency peer: Bouffard (-2 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 « bougeais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bossue
bossue
19,067 corpus weight
- boucau
boucau
19,065 corpus weight
- Bouffard
Bouffard
19,064 corpus weight
- bougeais
bougeais
19,062 corpus weight
- Boumediene
Boumediene
19,060 corpus weight
- bourdonnais
bourdonnais
19,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bougeais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bougeais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bougeais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bougeais is uncommon French at frequency #80,939 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bu.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bougeais, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bougeais, spelled B-O-U-G-E-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bouger.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bouger.
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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