bouic
\bwik\
The verdict
“bouic” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maison de tolérance, lieu de prostitution, bordel. → voir boxon, bobinard, claque etc. par extension, endroit sale et mal tenu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouic · bouic · French
bouic · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | bouic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouic is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bwik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bouic in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bouic, spelled B-O-U-I-C.
Definition
- 1Maison de tolérance, lieu de prostitution, bordel. → voir boxon, bobinard, claque etc. par extension, endroit sale et mal tenu.
- 2Café, restaurant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Baise-la ! Ou bien, si elle ne veut pas, va tirer ton coup au bouic.
Pour notre groupe scolaire, l’épreuve souhaitée et redoutée à la fois se déroulait dans les locaux de l’école de la rue Ferdinand-Flocon, proche de la mairie du XVIIIe, voie connue de tous les galopins du quartier pour une petite maison d’un étage aux volets verts toujours clos, un petit bouic de faubourg : Chez Rachel, du nom de la tenancière.
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.