Boukhara
\bu.ka.ʁa\
The verdict
“Boukhara” is uncommon French (frequency #85,527 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,527
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Ouzbékistan, au centre-sud du pays, capitale de la province du même nom, sur le cours inférieur de la rivière Zarafshan, au milieu d’une oasis, à la limite orientale du désert de Kyzyl Kum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boukhara · Boukhara · French
Boukhara · rank #85,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,527
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourrelier
Nearest frequency peer: bourrelier (+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 « Boukhara »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blindages
blindages
14,479 corpus weight
- blottit
blottit
14,478 corpus weight
- botnet
botnet
14,476 corpus weight
- Boukhara
Boukhara
14,474 corpus weight
- bourrelier
bourrelier
14,473 corpus weight
- boye
boye
14,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Boukhara » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Boukhara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bu.ka.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Boukhara » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Boukhara is uncommon French at frequency #85,527 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bu.ka.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Ouzbékistan, au centre-sud du pays, capitale de la province du même nom, sur le cours inférieur de la rivière Zarafshan, au milieu d’une oasis, à la limite orientale du désert de Kyzyl Kum.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Boukhara, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Boukhara, spelled B-O-U-K-H-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Ouzbékistan, au centre-sud du pays, capitale de la province du même nom, sur le cours inférieur de la rivière Zarafshan, au milieu d’une oasis, à la limite orientale du désert de Kyzyl Kum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Boukhara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
KANETI, lieu du Turkestan, sur la route de Boukhara à Khokand, célèbre par une grande victoire d’Abdallah-Saheb-Kéran, kan de Boukhara, sur les kans de Tachkond, du Turkestan et de Kaptchak, en 1569.
Lorsque Nadir Châh revint de son expédition de l’Inde, Aboul Feïz Khan, fils de Soubhan Qouly Khan, descendant de Djenghiz Khan, était souverain de Boukhara. Ilbars Khan Qazaq, qui était aussi de la race de Djenghiz, gouvernait le Kharezm.
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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