bouteille

\bu.tɛj\

/\bu.tɛj\/ noun

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The verdict

“bouteille” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,058. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,058
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient à goulot étroit, destiné à contenir un liquide; le plus souvent fait de verre ou de plastique translucide.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bouteille · bouteille · French

bouteille · rank #3,058 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,058
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bouger

Nearest frequency peer: bouger (-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 « bouteille »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bouteille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bouteille vs bouteilles
90% similar
bouteille vs bouille
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bouteille
PropertyValue
Headwordbouteille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bu.tɛj\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,058
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bouteille »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).bouteillese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bouger » (#3,057), « Catherine » (#3,059), « bleus » (#3,056). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bouteille » est au #3,058. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around bouteille (IPA \bu.tɛj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,058 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouteille, with forms such as "bbouteille", "botueille", and "bouetille". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bouteilles", "bouille", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bouteille, spelled B-O-U-T-E-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Récipient à goulot étroit, destiné à contenir un liquide; le plus souvent fait de verre ou de plastique translucide.
  2. 2
    Contenu d’une bouteille au sens premier.
  3. 3
    Récipient rigide servant à stocker un gaz sous pression.
  4. 4
    Couleur vert sombre, habituellement celle du verre d’une bouteille (sens 1). #096A09
  5. 5
    Saillie en charpente, sur les cotés arrières du navire, et qui servaient de latrines. ^([2])
  6. 6
    Variété de courge. ^([2])
  7. 7
    Âge, expérience (par ellipse de avoir de la bouteille).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bouteille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le gardien lui avait ouvert, quand il s'était présenté en brandissant la bouteille d’eau-de-vie, comme un parlementaire arbore un drapeau blanc aux avant-postes.
  2. Une bouteille de Perrier entamée se dressait sur la table de la cuisine.

This word in other languages

bottle(English)botella(Español)Flasche(Deutsch)garrafa(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbouteille
  • botueille
  • bouetille
  • bouteile
  • bouteilel
  • boutelile
  • boutielle
  • boutteille
  • buoteille
  • obuteille

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouteille - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

bbouteille1botueille2bouetille2bouteile1bouteilel2boutelile2boutielle2boutteille1
Edit distance from "bouteille"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bouteille"?
"bouteille" is spelled B-O-U-T-E-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bu.tɛj\.
What does "bouteille" mean?
As a noun, "bouteille" means: Récipient à goulot étroit, destiné à contenir un liquide; le plus souvent fait de verre ou de plastique translucide.
What words are commonly confused with "bouteille"?
"bouteille" is commonly confused with "bouteilles", "bouille". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bouteille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bouteille" is \bu.tɛj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bouteille" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bouteille", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Catherine#3,059favorable#3,072supprimer#3,044supporter#3,043

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

directe10 variantsengager10 variantssuivent10 variantsfortune10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list