bouillis
\bu.ji\
The verdict
“bouillis” is uncommon French (frequency #72,974 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,974
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de bouilli.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouillis · bouillis · French
bouillis · rank #72,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,974
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bougeront
Nearest frequency peer: bougeront (-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 « bouillis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouffait
bouffait
27,030 corpus weight
- bougeront
bougeront
27,028 corpus weight
- bouillis
bouillis
27,027 corpus weight
- bourgades
bourgades
27,026 corpus weight
- Bowden
Bowden
27,025 corpus weight
- brb
brb
27,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouillis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouillis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.ji\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouillis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouillis is uncommon French at frequency #72,974 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bu.ji\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de bouilli.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bouillis, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bouillis, spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de bouilli.
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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