boulou
\bu.lu\
The verdict
“boulou” is uncommon French (frequency #62,819 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,819
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue bantoue parlée au Cameroun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boulou · boulou · French
boulou · rank #62,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,819
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bonny
Nearest frequency peer: Bonny (-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 « boulou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blotti
blotti
37,186 corpus weight
- bluffer
bluffer
37,185 corpus weight
- bohort
bohort
37,184 corpus weight
- Bonny
Bonny
37,183 corpus weight
- boulou
boulou
37,182 corpus weight
- bouses
bouses
37,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boulou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boulou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.lu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boulou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boulou is uncommon French at frequency #62,819 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.lu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue bantoue parlée au Cameroun.".
Zero misspellings are on record for boulou in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 boulou, spelled B-O-U-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Langue bantoue parlée au Cameroun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boulou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus à l’est et vers le sud s’étend le domaine des langues béti, incluant l’ewondo (aux environs de Yaoundé), le fang (également en usage en Guinée équatoriale) et le boulou.
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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