bougres
\buɡʁ\
The verdict
“bougres” is uncommon French (frequency #65,750 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,750
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bougre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bougres · bougres · French
bougres · rank #65,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,750
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boueuses
Nearest frequency peer: boueuses (-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 « bougres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- bousculés
bousculés
34,249 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bougres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bougres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bougres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bougres is uncommon French at frequency #65,750 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buɡʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bougre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bougres in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bougres, spelled B-O-U-G-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bougre.
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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