boutades
\bu.tad\
The verdict
“boutades” is uncommon French (frequency #96,693 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,693
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de boutade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boutades · boutades · French
boutades · rank #96,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,693
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourrache
Nearest frequency peer: bourrache (-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 « boutades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bourgeonnem…
bourgeonnement
3,310 corpus weight
- bourrache
bourrache
3,309 corpus weight
- boutades
boutades
3,308 corpus weight
- boutonnières
boutonnières
3,307 corpus weight
- braies
braies
3,306 corpus weight
- braire
braire
3,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boutades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boutades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.tad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boutades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boutades is uncommon French at frequency #96,693 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.tad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de boutade.".
boutades doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is boutades, spelled B-O-U-T-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de boutade.
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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