Boussu
\bu.sy\
The verdict
“Boussu” is uncommon French (frequency #64,982 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,982
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boussu · Boussu · French
Boussu · rank #64,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,982
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouchent
Nearest frequency peer: bouchent (-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 « Boussu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bordage
bordage
35,023 corpus weight
- bort
bort
35,022 corpus weight
- bouchent
bouchent
35,020 corpus weight
- Boussu
Boussu
35,019 corpus weight
- brillera
brillera
35,016 corpus weight
- broch
broch
35,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Boussu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Boussu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bu.sy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Boussu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Boussu is uncommon French at frequency #64,982 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bu.sy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Boussu, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Boussu, spelled B-O-U-S-S-U.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province du Hainaut de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Boussu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’immeuble offre une perspective unique sur la place arborée de Boussu, au demeurant répertoriée comme patrimoine architectural de Belgique.
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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