bouillant
\bu.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“bouillant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,501. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,501
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui bout.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouillant · bouillant · French
bouillant · rank #22,501 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,501
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burkini
Nearest frequency peer: burkini (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bouillant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- battez
battez
77,504 corpus weight
- bienveillan…
bienveillante
77,503 corpus weight
- bouillant
bouillant
77,500 corpus weight
- burkini
burkini
77,499 corpus weight
- burlesque
burlesque
77,498 corpus weight
- cab
cab
77,497 corpus weight
What this shows « bouillant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bouillant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bouillant (IPA \bu.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,501 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouillant, with forms such as "bbouillant", "boiullant", and "bouilalnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "brillant", "bouillon", "bouillante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bouillant, spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui bout.
- 2Qui est extrêmement chaud.
- 3Qui est prompt, vif, ardent, en parlant d’une personne.
- 4Compliqué ; controversé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, le bruit se répandit bientôt que le juif avait jeté l’hostie dans une cuve d’eau bouillante, à la suite de quoi l’eau aurait rougi sans s’altérer.
Je plongeai les crabes dans la casserole d’eau bouillante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbouillant
- boiullant
- bouilalnt
- bouilant
- bouillannt
- bouillantt
- bouillatn
- bouillnat
- boulilant
- buoillant
- obuillant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouillant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bouillant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).