boulder
\bul.dœʁ\
The verdict
“boulder” is uncommon French (frequency #56,455 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,455
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Importante masse rocheuse, distincte du sol qui l’entoure, que l’on trouve surtout dans des formations argileuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulder · boulder · French
boulder · rank #56,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,455
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boucheron
Nearest frequency peer: Boucheron (-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 « boulder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bookmaker
bookmaker
43,550 corpus weight
- bossez
bossez
43,549 corpus weight
- Boucheron
Boucheron
43,547 corpus weight
- boulder
boulder
43,546 corpus weight
- bousculée
bousculée
43,545 corpus weight
- BPCE
BPCE
43,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boulder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bul.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boulder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boulder is uncommon French at frequency #56,455 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bul.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Importante masse rocheuse, distincte du sol qui l’entoure, que l’on trouve surtout dans des formations argileuses.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for boulder, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is boulder, spelled B-O-U-L-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Importante masse rocheuse, distincte du sol qui l’entoure, que l’on trouve surtout dans des formations argileuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boulder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin le troisième groupe de ruines, c'est celui de la forteresse au sommet de la colline. […]. Au nord et à l'est, ce sont d'énormes et inaccessibles blocs ou boulders de granit superposés.
Une incompréhensible accumulation de boulders presque noirs.
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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