bouillons
\bu.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“bouillons” is uncommon French (frequency #53,816 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,816
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bouillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouillons · bouillons · French
bouillons · rank #53,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,816
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouffant
Nearest frequency peer: bouffant (-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 « bouillons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boobs
boobs
46,188 corpus weight
- Boudreau
Boudreau
46,187 corpus weight
- bouffant
bouffant
46,186 corpus weight
- bouillons
bouillons
46,185 corpus weight
- Bournemouth
Bournemouth
46,184 corpus weight
- brassière
brassière
46,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouillons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouillons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouillons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouillons is uncommon French at frequency #53,816 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bouillon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bouillons, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bouillons, spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bouillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bouillons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces fosses, d’ordinaire, bouillottaient évidemment sous le jus des cadavres mais, arrosées et baignées par la pluie maintenant, elles bouillaient à gros bouillons comme d’infâmes soupes.
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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