bouillon de légumes
\bu.jɔ̃ də le.ɡym\
The verdict
“bouillon de légumes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Liquide passé et décanté obtenu en faisant cuire doucement des légumes (carottes, navets, poireaux, oignons, panais, céleri et selon le besoin avec des pommes de terre, des légumes secs et des céré...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouillon de légumes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.jɔ̃ də le.ɡym\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bouillon de légumes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouillon de légumes is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.jɔ̃ də le.ɡym\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Liquide passé et décanté obtenu en faisant cuire doucement des légumes (carottes, navets, poireaux, oignons, panais, céleri et selon le besoin avec des pommes de terre, des légumes secs et des céré...".
No misspelling variants are generated for bouillon de légumes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 bouillon de légumes, spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-O-N- -D-E- -L-É-G-U-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Liquide passé et décanté obtenu en faisant cuire doucement des légumes (carottes, navets, poireaux, oignons, panais, céleri et selon le besoin avec des pommes de terre, des légumes secs et des céréales) dans de l'eau bouillante et utilisé pour la confection de sauces, de cuissons ou autres préparations culinaires.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-I-L-L-O-N- -D-E- -L-É-G-U-M-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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