boulimie
\bu.li.mi\
The verdict
“boulimie” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,302. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,302
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trouble du comportement qui se rencontre dans certaines affections, souvent d’origine nerveuse, consistant à avoir toujours la sensation de faim excessive qui conduit à ingérer une grande quantité ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulimie · boulimie · French
boulimie · rank #43,302 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,302
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouilli
Nearest frequency peer: bouilli (-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 « boulimie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bonneau
bonneau
56,703 corpus weight
- bordels
bordels
56,702 corpus weight
- bordélique
bordélique
56,701 corpus weight
- bouilli
bouilli
56,700 corpus weight
- boulimie
boulimie
56,699 corpus weight
- branlent
branlent
56,697 corpus weight
What this shows « boulimie » 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 | boulimie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.li.mi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boulimie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around boulimie (IPA \bu.li.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,302 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for boulimie, with forms such as "bboulimie", "boluimie", and "bouilmie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Bolivie", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is boulimie, spelled B-O-U-L-I-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Trouble du comportement qui se rencontre dans certaines affections, souvent d’origine nerveuse, consistant à avoir toujours la sensation de faim excessive qui conduit à ingérer une grande quantité de nourriture.
- 2Besoin irrépressible de consommer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boulimie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les personnes souffrant de boulimie ont généralement un indice de masse corporelle (IMC) normal en raison de ces comportements compensatoires.
Selon la façon dont les anticorps vont se lier à cette hormone et le temps durant lequel ils vont le faire, cela déclenchera soit une sensation de satiété (anorexie), soit l’absence de cette même sensation (boulimie, hyperphagie).
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboulimie
- boluimie
- bouilmie
- bouliime
- boulimei
- boulimmie
- boullimie
- boulmiie
- buolimie
- obulimie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boulimie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).