boutade
\bu.tad\
The verdict
“boutade” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,257. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,257
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caprice, saillie d’esprit et d’humeur ^([1]) ^([2]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-boutade · boutade · French
boutade · rank #29,257 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,257
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boulay
Nearest frequency peer: Boulay (-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 « boutade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bouder
bouder
70,747 corpus weight
- bougeait
bougeait
70,746 corpus weight
- Boulay
Boulay
70,745 corpus weight
- boutade
boutade
70,744 corpus weight
- branleur
branleur
70,743 corpus weight
- brisant
brisant
70,742 corpus weight
What this shows « boutade » 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 | boutade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.tad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boutade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around boutade (IPA \bu.tad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,257 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for boutade, with forms such as "bboutade", "botuade", and "bouatde". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "brutale", "boude", "bourde", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boutade, spelled B-O-U-T-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Caprice, saillie d’esprit et d’humeur ^([1]) ^([2]).
- 2Vers faits par caprice ^([2]).
- 3Danse figurée, petit ballet impromptu ^([2]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boutade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Messieurs, dit-il, votre esprit s’évapore en boutades qui ne mènent à rien ; il serait temps, selon moi, de prendre les choses par le côté sérieux, et d’en parler sérieusement.
Et satisfait outre mesure de cette boutade philosophique, qui lui paraissait pleine d’à-propos, le Canadien s’enveloppa d’un épais nuage de fumée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboutade
- botuade
- bouatde
- boutadde
- boutaed
- boutdae
- bouttade
- buotade
- obutade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boutade - 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 "boutade", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).