bouledogue

\bul.dɔɡ\

/\bul.dɔɡ\/ noun

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The verdict

“bouledogue” is uncommon French (frequency #53,167 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,167
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des races de chiens molossoïdes, qui sont comme un dogue au museau écrasé ; ils ont le crâne très développé, le corps trapu et court près du sol, les babines pendantes, la musculature imposante...

Corpus desk

Index FR-bouledogue · bouledogue · French

bouledogue · rank #53,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,167
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bouillonnement

Nearest frequency peer: bouillonnement (-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 « bouledogue »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouledogue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bouledogue
PropertyValue
Headwordbouledogue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bul.dɔɡ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#53,167
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bouledogue » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).bouledoguetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « bouillonnement » (#53,166), « boulimique » (#53,168), « bondissant » (#53,165). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bouledogue » est au #53,167. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bouledogue is uncommon French at frequency #53,167 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bul.dɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for bouledogue in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bouledogue, spelled B-O-U-L-E-D-O-G-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Une des races de chiens molossoïdes, qui sont comme un dogue au museau écrasé ; ils ont le crâne très développé, le corps trapu et court près du sol, les babines pendantes, la musculature imposante, et le poil court.
  2. 2
    Variante de bouledogue français (race de chien).
  3. 3
    Requin bouledogue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bouledogue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il […] se tourna tout à coup vers lui avec un grincement de dents si formidable que le géant flamand recula, comme un bouledogue devant un chat.
  2. Son portrait voisine avec ceux des bêtes qui furent plus heureuses, sinon plus résignées : ma dernière bouledogue, désespérée de vieillir, de devenir sourde, d’entendre moins ma voix, de ne distinguer mes traits que derrière un brouillard.

Synonyms

boulechien dogue

This word in other languages

bulldog(English)Bulldogge(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bouledogue"?
"bouledogue" is spelled B-O-U-L-E-D-O-G-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bul.dɔɡ\.
What does "bouledogue" mean?
As a noun, "bouledogue" means: Une des races de chiens molossoïdes, qui sont comme un dogue au museau écrasé ; ils ont le crâne très développé, le corps trapu et court près du sol, les babines pendantes, la musculature imposante...
How do you pronounce "bouledogue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bouledogue" is \bul.dɔɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bouledogue" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bouledogue", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

boulimique#53,168bondissant#53,165cappuccino#53,187Chandeleur#53,195

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list