bouiboui
\bwi.bwi\
The verdict
“bouiboui” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Débit de boissons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouiboui · bouiboui · French
bouiboui · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouiboui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwi.bwi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouiboui » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouiboui is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bwi.bwi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Débit de boissons.".
bouiboui has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 bouiboui, spelled B-O-U-I-B-O-U-I.
Definition
- 1Débit de boissons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouiboui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On va au bouiboui.
Donc, ô guinguettes, goguettes, bouchons, caboulots, bouibouis, mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines des chiffonniers, caravansérails des califes, je vous atteste, je suis un voluptueux.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.