bougent
\buʒ\
The verdict
“bougent” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,559
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe bouger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bougent · bougent · French
bougent · rank #16,559 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,559
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Biélorussie
Nearest frequency peer: Biélorussie (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bougent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Birmanie
Birmanie
83,445 corpus weight
- Biélorussie
Biélorussie
83,443 corpus weight
- bougent
bougent
83,442 corpus weight
- bouillir
bouillir
83,441 corpus weight
- bruyant
bruyant
83,440 corpus weight
- buvez
buvez
83,439 corpus weight
What this shows « bougent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bougent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \buʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bougent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bougent (IPA \buʒ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,559 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bougent, with forms such as "bbougent", "boguent", and "bouegnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "bouger", "boulet", "bougez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 bougent, spelled B-O-U-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe bouger.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe bouger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bougent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais les choses bougent, note Emmanuelle Ledoux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbougent
- boguent
- bouegnt
- bougennt
- bougentt
- bougetn
- bouggent
- bougnet
- buogent
- obugent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bougent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bougent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).