bous
\bu\
The verdict
“bous” is uncommon French (frequency #58,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,462
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans l’expression « des bous de sucre », du sucre qui a bouilli.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bous · bous · French
bous · rank #58,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,462
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourrasque
Nearest frequency peer: bourrasque (-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 « bous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boer
boer
41,542 corpus weight
- bonde
bonde
41,541 corpus weight
- bourrasque
bourrasque
41,540 corpus weight
- bous
bous
41,539 corpus weight
- bouter
bouter
41,538 corpus weight
- bractées
bractées
41,537 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bous is uncommon French at frequency #58,462 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans l’expression « des bous de sucre », du sucre qui a bouilli.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bous in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bous, spelled B-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Dans l’expression « des bous de sucre », du sucre qui a bouilli.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).