bousculaient
\bus.ky.lɛ\
The verdict
“bousculaient” is uncommon French (frequency #81,826 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,826
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bousculer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bousculaient · bousculaient · French
bousculaient · rank #81,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,826
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boudeur
Nearest frequency peer: boudeur (-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 « bousculaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bornent
bornent
18,179 corpus weight
- boudeur
boudeur
18,176 corpus weight
- bousculaient
bousculaient
18,175 corpus weight
- boutiquiers
boutiquiers
18,173 corpus weight
- branlettes
branlettes
18,172 corpus weight
- Brassac
Brassac
18,171 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bousculaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bousculaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bus.ky.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bousculaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bousculaient is uncommon French at frequency #81,826 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bus.ky.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bousculer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bousculaient, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bousculaient, spelled B-O-U-S-C-U-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bousculer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bousculaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lumières du quai brutalisaient les visages des passagers qui s'affairaient, et déjà se bousculaient, déjà se parisianisaient.
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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