bouse
\buz\
The verdict
“bouse” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,312. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,312
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déjection bovine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouse · bouse · French
bouse · rank #32,312 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,312
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bougre
Nearest frequency peer: bougre (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bouse”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bolduc
bolduc
67,692 corpus weight
- bouffons
bouffons
67,691 corpus weight
- bougre
bougre
67,690 corpus weight
- bouse
bouse
67,689 corpus weight
- bouvard
bouvard
67,688 corpus weight
- brandissant
brandissant
67,687 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bouse” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “bouse” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around bouse (IPA \buz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,312 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouse, with forms such as "bbouse", "bosue", and "bousse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bus", "bue", "bout", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bouse, spelled B-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Déjection bovine.
- 2Résidu de la pulpe d’olive obtenu à la fin du pressage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand nous passâmes là pour la première fois, cet enfant était occupé à gâcher un enduit de terre et de bouse avec lequel il revêtait les bizons qui se se laissaient complaisamment badigeonner par lui.
— Le pauvre pays ! dit-elle en me montrant le long d’un champ environné d’un mur à pierres sèches, des bouses de vache appliquées symétriquement. J’ai demandé ce que c’était que cela. Une paysanne, occupée à les coller, m’a répondu qu’elle faisait du bois. Imaginez-vous, mon ami, que, quand ces bouses sont séchées, ces pauvres gens les récoltent, les enta…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbouse
- bosue
- bousse
- buose
- obuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bouse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "bouse". Here's where to go from here.
- "bouse" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "bus". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #32,312 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "B" letter cohort. B–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.