bouquetins
\buk.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“bouquetins” is uncommon French (frequency #68,862 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,862
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bouquetin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouquetins · bouquetins · French
bouquetins · rank #68,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,862
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bouna
Nearest frequency peer: Bouna (-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 « bouquetins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bonze
bonze
31,142 corpus weight
- Bouet
Bouet
31,141 corpus weight
- Bouna
Bouna
31,140 corpus weight
- bouquetins
bouquetins
31,139 corpus weight
- brassent
brassent
31,138 corpus weight
- brassées
brassées
31,137 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouquetins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouquetins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buk.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouquetins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouquetins is uncommon French at frequency #68,862 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buk.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bouquetin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bouquetins in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bouquetins, spelled B-O-U-Q-U-E-T-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bouquetin.
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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