boutant
\bu.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“boutant” is uncommon French (frequency #92,491 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,491
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui vient buter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boutant · boutant · French
boutant · rank #92,491 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,491
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bougeoir
Nearest frequency peer: bougeoir (-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 « boutant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boron
boron
7,514 corpus weight
- bosseuse
bosseuse
7,513 corpus weight
- Boudreault
Boudreault
7,512 corpus weight
- bougeoir
bougeoir
7,511 corpus weight
- boutant
boutant
7,510 corpus weight
- bramante
bramante
7,508 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boutant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boutant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boutant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boutant is uncommon French at frequency #92,491 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bu.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui vient buter.".
boutant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is boutant, spelled B-O-U-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui vient buter.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).