bouquet
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,073
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
bouquet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage de fleurs coupées et serrées les unes contre les autres. Pronounced \bu.kɛ\. It ranks #8,073 in French word frequency. Often confused with bouvet and bouquin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouquet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.kɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,073 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for bouquet, with forms such as "bbouquet", "boquuet", and "bouqeut". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "bouvet", "bouquin", "briquet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bouquet, spelled B-O-U-Q-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de fleurs coupées et serrées les unes contre les autres.
- 2Petit faisceau de plantes aromatiques culinaires.
- 3Ensemble d’arbres formant un bosquet.
- 4Peuplement de moins de 50 ares.
- 5Assemblage de choses liées ou qui tiennent naturellement l’une avec l’autre.
- 6Paquet de différentes pièces d’artifice qui partent ensemble.
- 7Ce qu’il y a de mieux et qui a été réservé pour la fin dans un récit, une fête…
- 8Désagrément qui vient s’ajouter à une série de mauvaises nouvelles.
- 9Sensation olfactive parvenant à la cavité nasale par l’arrière, depuis la gorge. Parfum du vin, sensible à la fois à l'odorat et au goût, qui distingue certaines de ses qualités.
- 10Petit texte en vers adressé à une personne le jour de son anniversaire.
- 11Capital versé par l’acheteur dans le cadre d’une rente viagère.
- 12Variété d’artichaut, de couleur violette, récolté avant maturité.
- 13Ensemble de chaînes de télévision regroupées dans une offre commerciale.
- 14Réunion de deux espaces topologiques en identifiant un de leurs points.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbouquet,boquuet,bouqeut,bouqquet,bouquett,bouqute,bouuqet,buoquet,obuquet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bouquet
Misspelling Variants of "bouquet"
Frequency rank: #8,073 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: