bouquet
\bu.kɛ\
The verdict
“bouquet” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,073 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,073
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Assemblage de fleurs coupées et serrées les unes contre les autres.
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 | 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) |
Where “bouquet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouquet is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouquet, with forms such as "bbouquet", "boquuet", and "bouqeut". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "bouvet", "bouquin", "briquet", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bouquet, spelled B-O-U-Q-U-E-T.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbouquet,boquuet,bouqeut,bouqquet,bouquett,bouqute,bouuqet,buoquet,obuquet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouquet - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “bouquet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-Q-U-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bu.kɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “bouvet” - see the side-by-side comparison. bouquet vs bouvet
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.