bouillie pour les chats
\bu.ji puʁ le ʃa\
The verdict
“bouillie pour les chats” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propos totalement mensongers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouillie-pour-les-chats · bouillie pour les chats · French
bouillie pour les chats · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 | bouillie pour les chats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ji puʁ le ʃa\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouillie pour les chats » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouillie pour les chats is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ji puʁ le ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Propos totalement mensongers.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bouillie pour les chats, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 bouillie pour les chats, spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-I-E- -P-O-U-R- -L-E-S- -C-H-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Propos totalement mensongers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouillie pour les chats appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ailleurs au Canada, on affirme souvent d’un air entendu que si les Québécois se paient plus de services publics que les autres Canadiens, c’est parce que l’État québécois vit aux crochets du fédéral. Vous savez maintenant que cette affirmation est de la bouillie pour les chats.
Je sais que certains d’entre vous diront que je suis bavard comme une pie, que d’autres me garderont un chien de leur chienne et que les plus méchants affirmeront que ce billet est de la bouillie pour les chats. Tant pis !
Synonyms
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.