boulgour
\bul.ɡuʁ\
The verdict
“boulgour” is uncommon French (frequency #99,932 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,932
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blé dur germé, précuit, séché et concassé, très utilisé dans la cuisine du Moyen-Orient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulgour · boulgour · French
boulgour · rank #99,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,932
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boob
Nearest frequency peer: boob (-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 « boulgour »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bont
bont
71 corpus weight
- boob
boob
70 corpus weight
- boulgour
boulgour
69 corpus weight
- bouquine
bouquine
68 corpus weight
- bril
bril
63 corpus weight
- Brives
Brives
62 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boulgour » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulgour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bul.ɡuʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boulgour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boulgour is uncommon French at frequency #99,932 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bul.ɡuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Blé dur germé, précuit, séché et concassé, très utilisé dans la cuisine du Moyen-Orient.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for boulgour, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boulgour, spelled B-O-U-L-G-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Blé dur germé, précuit, séché et concassé, très utilisé dans la cuisine du Moyen-Orient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boulgour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le boulgour entre dans la composition du taboulé.
This word in other languages
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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