bougre
\buɡʁ\
The verdict
“bougre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,311
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sodomite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bougre · bougre · French
bougre · rank #32,311 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,311
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouffons
Nearest frequency peer: bouffons (-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 « bougre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boisée
boisée
67,693 corpus weight
- bolduc
bolduc
67,692 corpus weight
- bouffons
bouffons
67,691 corpus weight
- bougre
bougre
67,690 corpus weight
- bouse
bouse
67,689 corpus weight
- bouvard
bouvard
67,688 corpus weight
What this shows « bougre » 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 | bougre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bougre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bougre (IPA \buɡʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,311 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bougre, with forms such as "bbougre", "bogure", and "bouggre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bure", "boule", "bourg", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bougre, spelled B-O-U-G-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sodomite.
- 2Personne méprisable.
- 3Individu coquin ou gaillard.
- 4Personne misérable ou malchanceuse.
- 5Mec, pote, gars.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bougre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bougre tente, mais ses feux trop ardens s'éteignent dans l'effervescence de l'entreprise.
Si le roi Edouard le voit, bougre comme on le connaît, vous risquez fort que ce jouvenceau ne vous revienne jamais.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbougre
- bogure
- bouggre
- bougrre
- bourge
- buogre
- obugre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bougre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "bougre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).