Bouira
\bwi.ʁa\
The verdict
“Bouira” is uncommon French (frequency #61,354 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,354
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Kabylie en Algérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouira · Bouira · French
Bouira · rank #61,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,354
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bougnoule
Nearest frequency peer: bougnoule (-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 « Bouira »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bonneuil
Bonneuil
38,651 corpus weight
- bouddhas
bouddhas
38,650 corpus weight
- bougnoule
bougnoule
38,648 corpus weight
- Bouira
Bouira
38,647 corpus weight
- bourrique
bourrique
38,645 corpus weight
- boxon
boxon
38,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bouira » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bouira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bwi.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bouira » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bouira is uncommon French at frequency #61,354 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bwi.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Bouira in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Bouira, spelled B-O-U-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Ville de Kabylie en Algérie.
- 2Wilaya dont cette ville est le chef-lieu.
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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