Bouguereau
The verdict
“Bouguereau” is uncommon French (frequency #97,722 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,722
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français représenté notamment par le peintre William Bouguereau (1825-1905).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouguereau · Bouguereau · French
Bouguereau · rank #97,722 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,722
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bothwell
Nearest frequency peer: Bothwell (-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 « Bouguereau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bondoufle
Bondoufle
2,283 corpus weight
- bories
bories
2,282 corpus weight
- Bothwell
Bothwell
2,281 corpus weight
- Bouguereau
Bouguereau
2,279 corpus weight
- bouli
bouli
2,276 corpus weight
- bourdillon
bourdillon
2,275 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bouguereau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bouguereau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bouguereau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bouguereau is uncommon French at frequency #97,722 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français représenté notamment par le peintre William Bouguereau (1825-1905).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bouguereau, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Bouguereau, spelled B-O-U-G-U-E-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français représenté notamment par le peintre William Bouguereau (1825-1905).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bouguereau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Est-ce que c’est fait pour être vu, la peinture… la peinture, hein !… dites !… comprenez-vous ?… On travaille pour soi, pour deux ou trois amis vivants, et pour d’autres qu’on n’a pas connus et qui sont morts… Poë, Baudelaire, Dostoiewsky, Shakespeare… Shakespeare !… comprenez-vous ?… Le reste !… Eh bien ! quoi, le reste ?… c’est à Bouguereau.
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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