bousculée
\bus.ky.le\
The verdict
“bousculée” is uncommon French (frequency #56,456 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,456
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe bousculer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bousculee · bousculée · French
bousculée · rank #56,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,456
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boulder
Nearest frequency peer: boulder (-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 « bousculée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bossez
bossez
43,549 corpus weight
- Boucheron
Boucheron
43,547 corpus weight
- boulder
boulder
43,546 corpus weight
- bousculée
bousculée
43,545 corpus weight
- BPCE
BPCE
43,543 corpus weight
- brassards
brassards
43,542 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bousculée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bousculée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bus.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bousculée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bousculée is uncommon French at frequency #56,456 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bus.ky.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe bousculer.".
bousculée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bousculée, spelled B-O-U-S-C-U-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe bousculer.
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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