bouillonner
\bu.jɔ.ne\
The verdict
“bouillonner” is uncommon French (frequency #88,407 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,407
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jaillir, s’agiter en formant des bouillons, en parlant de l’eau et des autres liquides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouillonner · bouillonner · French
bouillonner · rank #88,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,407
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bougeons
Nearest frequency peer: bougeons (-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 « bouillonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- botanic
botanic
11,599 corpus weight
- bouffis
bouffis
11,597 corpus weight
- bougeons
bougeons
11,595 corpus weight
- bouillonner
bouillonner
11,594 corpus weight
- bouleversera
bouleversera
11,593 corpus weight
- breloque
breloque
11,591 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouillonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouillonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.jɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouillonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouillonner is uncommon French at frequency #88,407 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bu.jɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bouillonner, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bouillonner, spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jaillir, s’agiter en formant des bouillons, en parlant de l’eau et des autres liquides.
- 2Avoir des accès, des agitations de colère rentrée.
- 3Avoir des agitations.
- 4Plisser en bouillons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouillonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fontaine qui bouillonne. - Une source qui bouillonne. - Le sang bouillonnait en sortant de la plaie. - Faire bouillonner l’eau en l’agitant.
J’effondrerai des cieux la voûte dérisoire. Par delà l’épaisseur de ce sépulcre bas Sur qui gronde le bruit sinistre de ton pas, Je ferai bouillonner les mondes dans leur gloire ; Et qui t’y cherchera ne t’y trouvera pas.
This word in other languages
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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