bounce
\baʊns\
The verdict
“bounce” is uncommon French (frequency #65,751 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,751
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rebond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bounce · bounce · French
bounce · rank #65,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,751
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bougres
Nearest frequency peer: bougres (-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 « bounce »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bornage
bornage
34,253 corpus weight
- boueuses
boueuses
34,252 corpus weight
- bougres
bougres
34,251 corpus weight
- bounce
bounce
34,250 corpus weight
- bousculés
bousculés
34,249 corpus weight
- boxeuse
boxeuse
34,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bounce » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bounce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʊns\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bounce » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bounce is uncommon French at frequency #65,751 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʊns\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rebond.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bounce in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bounce, spelled B-O-U-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Rebond.
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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