boutchou
\but.ʃu\
The verdict
“boutchou” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expression familière pour désigner un jeune enfant, sous-entendant qu’il est mignon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boutchou · boutchou · French
boutchou · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boutchou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \but.ʃu\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boutchou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boutchou is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \but.ʃu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expression familière pour désigner un jeune enfant, sous-entendant qu’il est mignon.".
boutchou has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is boutchou, spelled B-O-U-T-C-H-O-U.
Definition
- 1Expression familière pour désigner un jeune enfant, sous-entendant qu’il est mignon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boutchou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était « Comment va boutchou, ce matin ? » « Attention, ne fatigue pas trop mon boutchou »...
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.