bouteille
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,058
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
bouteille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Récipient à goulot étroit, destiné à contenir un liquide; le plus souvent fait de verre ou de plastique translucide. Pronounced \bu.tɛj\. It ranks #3,058 in French word frequency. Often confused with bouteilles and bouille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouteille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.tɛj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouteille is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.tɛj\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,058 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for bouteille, with forms such as "bbouteille", "botueille", and "bouetille". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bouteille, spelled B-O-U-T-E-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récipient à goulot étroit, destiné à contenir un liquide; le plus souvent fait de verre ou de plastique translucide.
- 2Contenu d’une bouteille au sens premier.
- 3Récipient rigide servant à stocker un gaz sous pression.
- 4Couleur vert sombre, habituellement celle du verre d’une bouteille (sens 1). #096A09
- 5Saillie en charpente, sur les cotés arrières du navire, et qui servaient de latrines. ^([2])
- 6Variété de courge. ^([2])
- 7Âge, expérience (par ellipse de avoir de la bouteille).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbouteille,botueille,bouetille,bouteile,bouteilel,boutelile,boutielle,boutteille,buoteille,obuteille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bouteille
Misspelling Variants of "bouteille"
Frequency rank: #3,058 in French
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Nearby French words
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