boulons
\bu.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“boulons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,347. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,347
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de boulon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulons · boulons · French
boulons · rank #27,347 · 10 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,347
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouleversant
Nearest frequency peer: bouleversant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « boulons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boomerang
boomerang
72,657 corpus weight
- boon
boon
72,656 corpus weight
- bouleversant
bouleversant
72,655 corpus weight
- boulons
boulons
72,654 corpus weight
- braqueur
braqueur
72,653 corpus weight
- bray
bray
72,652 corpus weight
What this shows « boulons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boulons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around boulons (IPA \bu.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,347 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de boulon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for boulons, with forms such as "bboulons", "boluons", and "boullons". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "boulot", "bouton", "boutons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boulons, spelled B-O-U-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de boulon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boulons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et quand j’ai posé les doigts sur les barres de métal un contact tiède et mou, plus proche du plastique que du fer, m’a étonné plus encore : j’ai tâté, forcé un peu, et réalisé que ce morceau que je touchais, là, juste à mon niveau, mais aussi en levant la tête toute la structure du pied, et à coup sûr la tour entière, était en réalité en clipo, oui en cl…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboulons
- boluons
- boullons
- boulnos
- boulonns
- boulonss
- boulosn
- bouolns
- buolons
- obulons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boulons - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).