bout

\bu\

/\bu\/ noun

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The verdict

“bout” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#609
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie extrême d’une chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bout · bout · French

bout · rank #609 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #609
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH attention

Nearest frequency peer: attention (-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 « bout »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bout » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bout vs bu
50% similar
bout vs BT
0% similar
bout vs but
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bout
PropertyValue
Headwordbout
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bu\
Letters4
Frequency rank#609
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bout »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.boutse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « attention » (#608), « conditions » (#610), « X » (#607). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bout » est au #609. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around bout (IPA \bu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #609 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for bout, with forms such as "bbout", "botu", and "boutt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bu", "BT", "but", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bout, spelled B-O-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie extrême d’une chose.
  2. 2
    Ce qui garnit l’extrémité de certaines choses.
  3. 3
    Petite partie de certaines choses ; morceau résiduel.
  4. 4
    Fin, terme, d’une chose qui dure dans le temps.
  5. 5
    Carte spéciale dans certains jeux de cartes, comme le tarot
  6. 6
    Avant, proue, du bâtiment.
  7. 7
    Bord le plus court d’une plaque, d’une tôle, d’une planche ; et plus généralement, face étroite d’un objet pris dans sa largeur, par opposition au plat et au chant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il leur suffisait de tremper le bout des doigts dans une pipe de cidre ou une cuvée de vin pour changer cidre et vin en bouse liquide ; […].
  2. Il y a encore une autre région frontière orificielle qui est un foyer sexuel tactile de haute importance : le bout des seins.

Synonyms

extrémitéfin

Antonyms

milieu

This word in other languages

end(English)final(Español)Ende(Deutsch)extremidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbout
  • botu
  • boutt
  • buot
  • obut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bout - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

bbout1botu2boutt1buot2obut2
Edit distance from "bout"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bout"?
"bout" is spelled B-O-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bu\.
What does "bout" mean?
As a noun, "bout" means: Partie extrême d’une chose.
What words are commonly confused with "bout"?
"bout" is commonly confused with "bu", "BT", "but". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bout"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bout" is \bu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bout" come from?
"bout" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bout", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list