Boulenger
The verdict
“Boulenger” is uncommon French (frequency #87,388 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,388
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulenger · Boulenger · French
Boulenger · rank #87,388 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,388
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boumerdès
Nearest frequency peer: Boumerdès (+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 « Boulenger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bonald
Bonald
12,617 corpus weight
- bored
bored
12,616 corpus weight
- Boulenger
Boulenger
12,613 corpus weight
- Boumerdès
Boumerdès
12,612 corpus weight
- BPCO
BPCO
12,610 corpus weight
- branlait
branlait
12,608 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Boulenger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Boulenger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Boulenger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Boulenger is uncommon French at frequency #87,388 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Boulenger doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Boulenger, spelled B-O-U-L-E-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Boulenger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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