boulodrome
\bu.lɔ.dʁom\
The verdict
“boulodrome” is uncommon French (frequency #77,307 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,307
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terrain – éventuellement couvert – aménagé pour la pratique du jeu de boules (pétanque, sport-boules etc).
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulodrome · boulodrome · French
boulodrome · rank #77,307 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,307
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bougea
Nearest frequency peer: bougea (-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 « boulodrome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bohèmes
bohèmes
22,698 corpus weight
- botulisme
botulisme
22,697 corpus weight
- bouchère
bouchère
22,696 corpus weight
- bougea
bougea
22,695 corpus weight
- boulodrome
boulodrome
22,694 corpus weight
- bousculades
bousculades
22,692 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boulodrome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulodrome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.lɔ.dʁom\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boulodrome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boulodrome is uncommon French at frequency #77,307 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.lɔ.dʁom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terrain – éventuellement couvert – aménagé pour la pratique du jeu de boules (pétanque, sport-boules etc).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for boulodrome in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is boulodrome, spelled B-O-U-L-O-D-R-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Terrain – éventuellement couvert – aménagé pour la pratique du jeu de boules (pétanque, sport-boules etc).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boulodrome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Grand Boulodrome du Chalet Russe - 364, avenue de Saxe (50 jeux) - Grand concours de boules le dimanche 28 juin
Depuis la création dans les cités ouvrières des usines Michelin à Clermont-Ferrand de boulodromes couvert et éclairés, on a constaté que les ouvriers désertaient le cabaret pour se livrer aux joies du sport-boules jusqu’à une heure avancée de la soirée.
Synonyms
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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