bouté
\bu.te\
The verdict
“bouté” is uncommon French (frequency #79,998 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,998
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a les jambes droites depuis le genou jusqu’à la couronne, en parlant d’un cheval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boute · bouté · French
bouté · rank #79,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,998
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourdonne
Nearest frequency peer: bourdonne (-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 « bouté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouchain
bouchain
20,005 corpus weight
- bourdonne
bourdonne
20,004 corpus weight
- bouté
bouté
20,003 corpus weight
- Bouvines
Bouvines
20,002 corpus weight
- brahmane
brahmane
20,001 corpus weight
- brahmi
brahmi
20,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bu.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouté is uncommon French at frequency #79,998 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a les jambes droites depuis le genou jusqu’à la couronne, en parlant d’un cheval.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bouté, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bouté, spelled B-O-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a les jambes droites depuis le genou jusqu’à la couronne, en parlant d’un cheval.
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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