bouillotte
\bu.jɔt\
The verdict
“bouillotte” is uncommon French (frequency #54,439 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,439
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouilloire pour faire bouillir de l’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouillotte · bouillotte · French
bouillotte · rank #54,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,439
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bougainville
Nearest frequency peer: Bougainville (-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 « bouillotte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BLM
BLM
45,565 corpus weight
- bosnien
bosnien
45,564 corpus weight
- Bougainville
Bougainville
45,563 corpus weight
- bouillotte
bouillotte
45,562 corpus weight
- boyz
boyz
45,561 corpus weight
- branchements
branchements
45,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouillotte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouillotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.jɔt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouillotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouillotte is uncommon French at frequency #54,439 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.jɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bouillotte, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 bouillotte, spelled B-O-U-I-L-L-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Bouilloire pour faire bouillir de l’eau.
- 2Récipient destiné à contenir de l’eau chaude pour réchauffer un lit.
- 3Visage, physionomie (voir bouille).
- 4Sorte de brelan très rapide à quatre personnes.
- 5Nom donné autrefois chez les fabricants de fleurs artificielles aux pétales de rose situées proche des étamines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouillotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je passai dans le cabinet de toilette… Tout y était en ordre, comme lorsque nous rentrions, le soir, tard… Les affaires de Juliette rangées sur le divan, la bouillotte pleine d’eau, posée sur le fourneau à gaz…
C’était une de ces grosses bonnes bouillottes ventripotentes, goitreuses, ou cabossées par un long usage, vieilles servantes tassées, mais souriantes, et honorées de servir, telles enfin que l’on n’en voit plus aujourd’hui que tout devient dur, étriqué, anguleux et chagrin. Et cette bouillotte chantait délicieusement sur les cendres.
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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