Bouguenais
The verdict
“Bouguenais” is uncommon French (frequency #74,610 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,610
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouguenais · Bouguenais · French
Bouguenais · rank #74,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,610
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boswell
Nearest frequency peer: Boswell (-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 « Bouguenais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bosseurs
bosseurs
25,393 corpus weight
- Boswell
Boswell
25,392 corpus weight
- Bouguenais
Bouguenais
25,391 corpus weight
- Bourbaki
Bourbaki
25,390 corpus weight
- Bourdeau
Bourdeau
25,389 corpus weight
- bovidés
bovidés
25,388 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bouguenais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bouguenais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bouguenais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bouguenais is uncommon French at frequency #74,610 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bouguenais in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Bouguenais, spelled B-O-U-G-U-E-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bouguenais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bouguenais, banlieue de Nantes, deux ans plus tôt.
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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