bouillie
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,459
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
bouillie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte d’aliment qui est fait de lait ou d’un autre liquide et de farine bouillis ensemble jusqu’à une certaine consistance et qu’on donne ordinairement aux petits enfants. Pronounced \bu.ji\. Often confused with bouillon and bouillir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouillie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ji\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouillie is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.ji\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,459 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for bouillie, with forms such as "bbouillie", "boiullie", and "bouilie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "bouillon", "bouillir", "brouille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bouillie, spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte d’aliment qui est fait de lait ou d’un autre liquide et de farine bouillis ensemble jusqu’à une certaine consistance et qu’on donne ordinairement aux petits enfants.
- 2Façon de s'exprimer confuse et peu articulée.
- 3Chiffons bouillis et réduits en pâte liquide avec lesquels se fabriquaient le papier et le carton.
- 4Tous mélanges pâteux même obtenus à froid.
- 5Bouillie bordelaise ou bouillie bourguignonne.
- 6Suspension épaisse d’un matériau insoluble dans un liquide.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbouillie,boiullie,bouilie,bouilile,bouillei,boulilie,buoillie,obuillie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "bouillie"
Frequency rank: #19,459 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: