boulle
\bul\
The verdict
“boulle” is uncommon French (frequency #57,121 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,121
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meuble incrusté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulle · boulle · French
boulle · rank #57,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,121
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourrelet
Nearest frequency peer: bourrelet (+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 « boulle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bolognaise
bolognaise
42,883 corpus weight
- bossa
bossa
42,882 corpus weight
- boulle
boulle
42,880 corpus weight
- bourrelet
bourrelet
42,879 corpus weight
- boutonneux
boutonneux
42,878 corpus weight
- braz
braz
42,877 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boulle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bul\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boulle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boulle is uncommon French at frequency #57,121 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Meuble incrusté.".
boulle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is boulle, spelled B-O-U-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Meuble incrusté.
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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