bouteille

/\bu.tɛj\/ noun

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.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bouteille in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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).

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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"

bbouteille10botueille9bouetille9bouteile8bouteilel9boutelile9boutielle9boutteille10
Misspelling Variants of "bouteille"

Frequency rank: #3,058 in French

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?
"bouteille" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.