bouillabaisse
\bu.ja.bɛs\
The verdict
“bouillabaisse” is uncommon French (frequency #63,573 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,573
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soupe provençale au poisson avec des tranches de pain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouillabaisse · bouillabaisse · French
bouillabaisse · rank #63,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,573
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boudet
Nearest frequency peer: boudet (-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 « bouillabaisse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bosque
bosque
36,431 corpus weight
- bouboule
bouboule
36,430 corpus weight
- boudet
boudet
36,429 corpus weight
- bouillabais…
bouillabaisse
36,428 corpus weight
- bound
bound
36,427 corpus weight
- braye
braye
36,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouillabaisse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouillabaisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ja.bɛs\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #63,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouillabaisse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouillabaisse is uncommon French at frequency #63,573 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ja.bɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bouillabaisse has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bouillabaisse, spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-A-B-A-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Soupe provençale au poisson avec des tranches de pain.
- 2Mélange confus d’éléments disparates.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouillabaisse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l'origine, la bouillabaisse était un plat de pêcheur cuisiné sur la plage retour de la pêche dans un grand chaudron posé sur un feu de bois. Elle est faite de poissons de roche bouillis avec des tomates et des épices, que l'on sert avec le bouillon sur des tranches de pain.
Est-ce Vénus, une abbesse ou un matelot? L'inventeur de la bouillabaisse change d'une histoire à l'autre. La déesse aurait créé cette soupe pour régaler Vulcain et lui permettre de bien dormir puisqu'il était communément admis autrefois que le safran (et il y en a dans ce plat) avait des vertus soporifiques. D'autres prétendent que c'est l'abbesse d'un co…
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).