Boullier
The verdict
“Boullier” is uncommon French (frequency #95,618 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,618
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boullier · Boullier · French
Boullier · rank #95,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,618
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boursouflé
Nearest frequency peer: boursouflé (+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 « Boullier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boland
Boland
4,389 corpus weight
- Borodine
Borodine
4,385 corpus weight
- Boullier
Boullier
4,383 corpus weight
- boursouflé
boursouflé
4,382 corpus weight
- bousculait
bousculait
4,381 corpus weight
- bove
bove
4,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Boullier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Boullier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Boullier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Boullier is uncommon French at frequency #95,618 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Boullier has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Boullier, spelled B-O-U-L-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Boullier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Forcément, on est impressionnés, ce n’est jamais évident de rebondir de la sorte, on ne peut que dire bravo pour ce qu’ils ont fait », souligne Éric Boullier, ancien patron de Renault et Lotus, de 2010 à 2014.
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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