bouleau
\bu.lo\
The verdict
“bouleau” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,277. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,277
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre ou arbuste à écorce claire, souvent blanche, à feuilles caduques et aux fleurs réunies en chatons, appartenant au genre Betula (famille des bétulacées).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouleau · bouleau · French
bouleau · rank #26,277 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,277
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bono
Nearest frequency peer: bono (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bouleau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bitch
bitch
73,727 corpus weight
- bitcoins
bitcoins
73,726 corpus weight
- bono
bono
73,725 corpus weight
- bouleau
bouleau
73,724 corpus weight
- Bourdieu
Bourdieu
73,723 corpus weight
- brenda
brenda
73,722 corpus weight
What this shows « bouleau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouleau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bouleau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bouleau (IPA \bu.lo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,277 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouleau, with forms such as "bbouleau", "bolueau", and "bouelau". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "bureau", "boules", "boulet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bouleau, spelled B-O-U-L-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Arbre ou arbuste à écorce claire, souvent blanche, à feuilles caduques et aux fleurs réunies en chatons, appartenant au genre Betula (famille des bétulacées).
- 2Bois clair provenant du bouleau, utilisé notamment en menuiserie, en ébénisterie et pour la fabrication de contreplaqués.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouleau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On y plante principalement des pins, des bouleaux, des marsaults, et des aulnes ; quelques-unes de ces essences réussissent assez bien.
Nous gagnâmes une clairière entourée de pins sombres, parmi lesquels se détachaient comme des squelettes quelques rares bouleaux blancs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbouleau
- bolueau
- bouelau
- boulaeu
- bouleua
- boulleau
- buoleau
- obuleau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouleau - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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