Bousquet
\bus.kɛ\
The verdict
“Bousquet” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,079
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français d’origine occitane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bousquet · Bousquet · French
Bousquet · rank #30,079 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,079
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourguignons
Nearest frequency peer: bourguignons (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bousquet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bosco
bosco
69,925 corpus weight
- bottom
bottom
69,924 corpus weight
- bourguignons
bourguignons
69,923 corpus weight
- Bousquet
Bousquet
69,922 corpus weight
- boxeurs
boxeurs
69,921 corpus weight
- brocante
brocante
69,920 corpus weight
What this shows « Bousquet » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Bousquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bus.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bousquet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Bousquet (IPA \bus.kɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,079 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français d’origine occitane.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bousquet, with forms such as "bbousquet", "bosuquet", and "bouqsuet". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "brusque", "brusquer", "bouquet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Bousquet, spelled B-O-U-S-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français d’origine occitane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bousquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frédéric Bousquet (47.15) est venu coiffer le néorecordman du monde Alain Bernard (47.51) en finale.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbousquet
- bosuquet
- bouqsuet
- bousqeut
- bousqquet
- bousquett
- bousqute
- boussquet
- bousuqet
- buosquet
- obusquet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bousquet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Bousquet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).