boulin
\bu.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“boulin” is uncommon French (frequency #59,123 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,123
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trou pratiqué dans un colombier, afin que les pigeons s’y retirent et y fassent leurs petits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulin · boulin · French
boulin · rank #59,123 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,123
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bottine
Nearest frequency peer: bottine (-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 « boulin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bombée
bombée
40,880 corpus weight
- bottine
bottine
40,879 corpus weight
- boulin
boulin
40,878 corpus weight
- bousculant
bousculant
40,877 corpus weight
- brandissent
brandissent
40,876 corpus weight
- bravos
bravos
40,875 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boulin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boulin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boulin is uncommon French at frequency #59,123 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.lɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for boulin in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 boulin, spelled B-O-U-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Trou pratiqué dans un colombier, afin que les pigeons s’y retirent et y fassent leurs petits.
- 2Pots de terre faits exprès pour servir de retraite à des pigeons, pour attirer des pigeons étrangers.
- 3Trous laissés dans un mur en construction par les pièces de bois de soutien d’un échafaudage.
- 4Pièce de bois utilisée pour le montage des échafaudages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boulin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On crêpit & on blanchit les parois des murailles en dedans, & on dispose pour chaque couple de pigeons, des boulins de forme ronde, que l’on range par ordre en les serrant les uns contre les autres.
Solitaire endurci, M. des Lourdines aurait, à la rigueur, consenti à voir les gens, mais il ne voulait pas être vu, de sorte qu’on avait fini par le laisser se pelotonner dans son Fougeray, comme un pigeon dans son boulin.
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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