bousculade
French, noun/bus.ky.lad/
bousculade is spelled B-O-U-S-C-U-L-A-D-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,844th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bousculade is a French feminine noun meaning “bustle, crush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Désordre par suite de poussée”.
What does bousculade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebustle, crush
- 2
femininestampede
Une bousculade provoquée par une rumeur d’incendie dans un cinéma a fait une victime et plusieurs blessés légers.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Désordre par suite de poussée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bousculade
- bousculades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bousculade?
- /bus.ky.lad/
- \bus.ky.lad\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bousculade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bousculade in French?
bousculade appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).