bousille
\bu.zij\
The verdict
“bousille” is uncommon French (frequency #50,688 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,688
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bousiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bousille · bousille · French
bousille · rank #50,688 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,688
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourru
Nearest frequency peer: bourru (-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 « bousille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bougeant
bougeant
49,317 corpus weight
- bourru
bourru
49,314 corpus weight
- bousille
bousille
49,313 corpus weight
- brewer
brewer
49,312 corpus weight
- Brodie
Brodie
49,310 corpus weight
- brossage
brossage
49,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bousille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bousille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.zij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bousille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bousille is uncommon French at frequency #50,688 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bu.zij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bousille in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bousille, spelled B-O-U-S-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bousiller.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bousiller.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe bousiller.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe bousiller.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe bousiller.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).