boulevard

\bul.vaʁ\

/\bul.vaʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“boulevard” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,129. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,129
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terre-plein d’un rempart, terrain d’un bastion ou d’une courtine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-boulevard · boulevard · French

boulevard · rank #4,129 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,129
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bijoux

Nearest frequency peer: bijoux (-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 « boulevard »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « boulevard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

boulevard vs bouvard
78% similar
boulevard vs boulevards
90% similar
boulevard vs boulard
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for boulevard
PropertyValue
Headwordboulevard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bul.vaʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#4,129
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boulevard »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.boulevardse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bijoux » (#4,128), « Britanniques » (#4,130), « bateaux » (#4,127). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « boulevard » est au #4,129. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around boulevard (IPA \bul.vaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,129 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for boulevard, with forms such as "bboulevard", "boluevard", and "bouelvard". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bouvard", "boulevards", "boulard", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is boulevard, spelled B-O-U-L-E-V-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Terre-plein d’un rempart, terrain d’un bastion ou d’une courtine.
  2. 2
    Place forte, bastion ou rempart métaphorique ; moyen de défense.
  3. 3
    Promenade plantée d’arbres, qui fait le tour d’une ville et qui occupe souvent l’espace des anciens remparts.
  4. 4
    Large voie, le plus souvent plantée d’arbres.
  5. 5
    Route largement ouverte pour atteindre un objectif, débarrassée de tout obstacle ou concurrent éventuel, en ayant les coudées franches.
  6. 6
    Théâtre de boulevard.
  7. 7
    Passage au niveau du pont d’un bateau, de part et d’autre du château.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Nous avancions tristes et mornes, mais tout à coup se présente la magnifique ville de Troyes avec sa porte guerrière, son menaçant béfroi, ses hauts boulevards, ses hautes tours, ses longues murailles crénelées […].
  2. La grandeur, puiſſance, et richeſſe des Evêques de la Polongne a ſervi d’un fort boulevard, pour la conſervation de la vraie foy.

Synonyms

rempart

This word in other languages

bulwark(English)bulevar(Español)Boulevard(Deutsch)avenida(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bboulevard
  • boluevard
  • bouelvard
  • bouleavrd
  • boulevadr
  • boulevardd
  • boulevarrd
  • boulevrad
  • boulevvard
  • boullevard
  • boulveard
  • buolevard
  • obulevard

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boulevard - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bboulevard1boluevard2bouelvard2bouleavrd2boulevadr2boulevardd1boulevarrd1boulevrad2
Edit distance from "boulevard"

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 "boulevard"?
"boulevard" is spelled B-O-U-L-E-V-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \bul.vaʁ\.
What does "boulevard" mean?
As a noun, "boulevard" means: Terre-plein d’un rempart, terrain d’un bastion ou d’une courtine.
What words are commonly confused with "boulevard"?
"boulevard" is commonly confused with "bouvard", "boulevards", "boulard". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "boulevard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "boulevard" is \bul.vaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "boulevard" come from?
"boulevard" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

argentine#4,121confirmer#4,137accidents#4,116décennies#4,145

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

inscrits13 variantsdéplacer13 variantschrétien13 variantscinquante13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list