bouquetin

\buk.tɛ̃\

/\buk.tɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“bouquetin” is uncommon French (frequency #79,110 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,110
frequency rank, French
227,490
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de chèvre sauvage vivant en montagne ou en plaine, dont le mâle a de longues cornes à bourrelets et recourbées vers l'arrière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bouquetin · bouquetin · French

bouquetin · rank #79,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,110
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 227,490
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bouhanni

Nearest frequency peer: Bouhanni (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “bouquetin”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “bouquetin” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of May 6, 2026
Key facts for bouquetin
PropertyValue
Headwordbouquetin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\buk.tɛ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#79,110
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “bouquetin” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). bouquetin lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bouquetin is uncommon French at frequency #79,110 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buk.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

bouquetin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bouquetin, spelled B-O-U-Q-U-E-T-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de chèvre sauvage vivant en montagne ou en plaine, dont le mâle a de longues cornes à bourrelets et recourbées vers l'arrière.
  2. 2
    Variante de bouquetin des Alpes (caprin).
  3. 3
    Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme le bouc dont il se distingue par la forme des cornes. À rapprocher de bouc, chamois, chèvre et mouflon.

Synonyms

ibex

This word in other languages

ibex(English)íbice(Español)Steinbock(Deutsch)

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bouquetin"?
"bouquetin" is spelled B-O-U-Q-U-E-T-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \buk.tɛ̃\.
What does "bouquetin" mean?
As a noun, "bouquetin" means: Espèce de chèvre sauvage vivant en montagne ou en plaine, dont le mâle a de longues cornes à bourrelets et recourbées vers l'arrière.
How do you pronounce "bouquetin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bouquetin" is \buk.tɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bouquetin" come from?
"bouquetin" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bouquetin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bouffeurs#79,108broussard#79,118blackbird#79,095Burkhardt#79,125
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list