bousilleur
\bu.zi.jœʁ\
The verdict
“bousilleur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui bousille, au propre et au figuré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bousilleur · bousilleur · French
bousilleur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bousilleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.zi.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bousilleur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.zi.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui bousille, au propre et au figuré.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bousilleur in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bousilleur, spelled B-O-U-S-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui bousille, au propre et au figuré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bousilleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est point pour une baderne aux doigts gourds comme Savary, ce n’est pas pour ce novice en diplomatie, qu’il a créé, pendant dix ans, cet instrument magnifiquement accordé, ce n’est pas pour qu’un bousilleur s’en serve maladroitement et se prévale, comme étant son œuvre, de ce que son prédécesseur a construit à force de jours et de nuits d’un pénible…
This word in other languages
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