boule de commande
\bul də kɔ.mɑ̃d\
The verdict
“boule de commande” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif de pointage utilisant une boule tournant dans un logement fixe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boule de commande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bul də kɔ.mɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boule de commande” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for boule de commande is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bul də kɔ.mɑ̃d\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dispositif de pointage utilisant une boule tournant dans un logement fixe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boule de commande in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is boule de commande, spelled B-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositif de pointage utilisant une boule tournant dans un logement fixe.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-L-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-M-A-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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