bouquet

/\bu.kɛ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for bouquet
PropertyValue
Headwordbouquet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bu.kɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,073
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bouquet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Assemblage de fleurs coupées et serrées les unes contre les autres.
  2. 2
    Petit faisceau de plantes aromatiques culinaires.
  3. 3
    Ensemble d’arbres formant un bosquet.
  4. 4
    Peuplement de moins de 50 ares.
  5. 5
    Assemblage de choses liées ou qui tiennent naturellement l’une avec l’autre.
  6. 6
    Paquet de différentes pièces d’artifice qui partent ensemble.
  7. 7
    Ce qu’il y a de mieux et qui a été réservé pour la fin dans un récit, une fête…
  8. 8
    Désagrément qui vient s’ajouter à une série de mauvaises nouvelles.
  9. 9
    Sensation 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.
  10. 10
    Petit texte en vers adressé à une personne le jour de son anniversaire.
  11. 11
    Capital versé par l’acheteur dans le cadre d’une rente viagère.
  12. 12
    Variété d’artichaut, de couleur violette, récolté avant maturité.
  13. 13
    Ensemble de chaînes de télévision regroupées dans une offre commerciale.
  14. 14
    Réunion 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"

bbouquet8boquuet7bouqeut7bouqquet8bouquett8bouqute7bouuqet7buoquet7
Misspelling Variants of "bouquet"

Frequency rank: #8,073 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bouquet"?
"bouquet" is spelled B-O-U-Q-U-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bu.kɛ\.
What does "bouquet" mean?
As a noun, "bouquet" means: Assemblage de fleurs coupées et serrées les unes contre les autres.
What words are commonly confused with "bouquet"?
"bouquet" is commonly confused with "bouvet", "bouquin", "briquet". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bouquet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bouquet" is \bu.kɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bouquet" come from?
"bouquet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.