bouses
\buz\
The verdict
“bouses” is uncommon French (frequency #62,820 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,820
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bouse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouses · bouses · French
bouses · rank #62,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,820
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boulou
Nearest frequency peer: boulou (-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 « bouses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bluffer
bluffer
37,185 corpus weight
- bohort
bohort
37,184 corpus weight
- Bonny
Bonny
37,183 corpus weight
- boulou
boulou
37,182 corpus weight
- bouses
bouses
37,181 corpus weight
- boyards
boyards
37,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouses is uncommon French at frequency #62,820 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bouse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bouses, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bouses, spelled B-O-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bouse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bouses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vis un yogi gentil qui était tout encendré et nu, accroupi devant un feu de bouses sèches, et prenait de la cendre de ce feu et s’en saupoudrait tout le corps, ayant les cheveux longs comme une femme, et encendrés, avec des cornes au bout d’un bâton fort grandes et tortillées, qu’il tenait par-dessus ses épaules.
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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