bouteiller
\bu.tɛ.je\
The verdict
“bouteiller” is uncommon French (frequency #76,377 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,377
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se remplir de bulles d’air lors de la fabrication, en parlant des verres, des glaces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouteiller · bouteiller · French
bouteiller · rank #76,377 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,377
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boucar
Nearest frequency peer: Boucar (-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 « bouteiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Botafogo
Botafogo
23,626 corpus weight
- Boucar
Boucar
23,625 corpus weight
- bouteiller
bouteiller
23,624 corpus weight
- boutoir
boutoir
23,623 corpus weight
- Brach
Brach
23,621 corpus weight
- brancardiers
brancardiers
23,620 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouteiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouteiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.tɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouteiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouteiller is uncommon French at frequency #76,377 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bu.tɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bouteiller in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bouteiller, spelled B-O-U-T-E-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se remplir de bulles d’air lors de la fabrication, en parlant des verres, des glaces.
- 2Transvaser d'un récipient vers un autre sans que ce soit nécessairement des bouteilles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bouteiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l'on y réfléchit bien, transvaser ne se fait que rarement d'un vase dans un autre. Il en est de même pour bouteiller. — (Loïc Depecker , Les mots des régions de France, Belin, 1992)
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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