bouquiniste
\bu.ki.nist\
The verdict
“bouquiniste” is uncommon French (frequency #91,463 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,463
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui achète des vieux livres pour les revendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouquiniste · bouquiniste · French
bouquiniste · rank #91,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,463
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boundary
Nearest frequency peer: boundary (-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 « bouquiniste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boostés
boostés
8,542 corpus weight
- boug
boug
8,540 corpus weight
- boundary
boundary
8,539 corpus weight
- bouquiniste
bouquiniste
8,538 corpus weight
- bouviers
bouviers
8,536 corpus weight
- braid
braid
8,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouquiniste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouquiniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ki.nist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouquiniste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouquiniste is uncommon French at frequency #91,463 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ki.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui achète des vieux livres pour les revendre.".
bouquiniste has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bouquiniste, spelled B-O-U-Q-U-I-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui achète des vieux livres pour les revendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouquiniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est impossible, pour un Parisien, de résister au désir de feuilleter de vieux ouvrages étalés par un bouquiniste.
Les bouquinistes déposent leurs boîtes sur le parapet. Ces braves marchands d’esprit, qui vivent sans cesse dehors, la blouse au vent, sont si bien travaillés par l’air, les pluies, les gelées, les neiges, les brouillards et le grand soleil, qu’ils finissent par ressembler aux vieilles statues des cathédrales.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).