boulimique
\bu.li.mik\
The verdict
“boulimique” is uncommon French (frequency #53,168 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,168
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à la boulimie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulimique · boulimique · French
boulimique · rank #53,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,168
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouledogue
Nearest frequency peer: bouledogue (-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 « boulimique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bondissant
bondissant
46,836 corpus weight
- bouillonnem…
bouillonnement
46,835 corpus weight
- bouledogue
bouledogue
46,834 corpus weight
- boulimique
boulimique
46,833 corpus weight
- bourge
bourge
46,832 corpus weight
- Bourque
Bourque
46,831 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boulimique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulimique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.li.mik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boulimique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boulimique is uncommon French at frequency #53,168 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bu.li.mik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport à la boulimie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boulimique in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 boulimique, spelled B-O-U-L-I-M-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à la boulimie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boulimique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En somme, ce sont des irritations de l’estomac et des intestins, dont les causes sont aussi nombreuses que variées, qui produisent la faim boulimique ; […].
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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