bouillon de légumes

\bu.jɔ̃ də le.ɡym\

/\bu.jɔ̃ də le.ɡym\/ noun

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
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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...

Key facts for bouillon de légumes
PropertyValue
Headwordbouillon de légumes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bu.jɔ̃ də le.ɡym\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “bouillon de légumes” sits in French frequency

bouillon de légumes falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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 céréales) dans de l'eau bouillante et utilisé pour la confection de sauces, de cuissons ou autres préparations culinaires.

Synonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bouillon de légumes"?
"bouillon de légumes" is spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-O-N- -D-E- -L-É-G-U-M-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bu.jɔ̃ də le.ɡym\.
What does "bouillon de légumes" mean?
As a noun, "bouillon de légumes" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "bouillon de légumes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bouillon de légumes" is \bu.jɔ̃ də le.ɡym\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “bouillon de légumes”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as \bu.jɔ̃ də le.ɡym\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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