bouton
\bu.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“bouton” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,405 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,405
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petite pièce de diverses matières, ordinairement ronde ou plate, quelquefois bombée ou en boule, qui sert généralement à retenir ensemble différentes parties d’un vêtement et que l’on passe, à cet ...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bouton” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouton is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,405 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bouton, with forms such as "bbouton", "botuon", and "bouotn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bouts", "butin", "breton", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bouton, spelled B-O-U-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petite pièce de diverses matières, ordinairement ronde ou plate, quelquefois bombée ou en boule, qui sert généralement à retenir ensemble différentes parties d’un vêtement et que l’on passe, à cet effet, dans les fentes appelées boutonnières, dans les ganses ou dans les brides.
- 2Petit corps arrondi ou allongé qui poussent sur les arbres et les arbustes et d’où naissent les branches, les feuilles ou les fleurs.
- 3Fleur qui n’est pas encore épanouie.
- 4Ornement décoratif sculpté figurant une fleur qui n’est pas éclose.
- 5Petites tumeurs arrondies qui se forment sur la peau, soit au visage, soit en diverses parties du corps.
- 6Insigne qui est une marque de la profession qu’on exerce ou de la dignité dont on est revêtu.
- 7Petite pièce de métal qui garnit l’extrémité d’un fleuret pour le rendre inoffensif.
- 8Partie saillante et arrondie à l’aide de laquelle on pousse et on tire le pêne d’une serrure ou un verrou.
- 9Pièce de fer ou de cuivre, qui est ordinairement de forme ronde ou ovale et qui sert à tirer à soi une porte ou à l’ouvrir.
- 10Petit anneau de cuir qui coule le long des rênes et qui sert à les resserrer.
- 11Petite portion d’or ou d’argent qui reste après la coupellation.
- 12Petit organe de commande d’un appareil, surtout bouton-poussoir.
- 13Commande manuelle d’un interrupteur, d’un potentiomètre, etc.
- 14Zones d’interface, icônes numériques d’un écran, d’un site ou d’un programme qui permet d’interagir avec ces derniers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbouton,botuon,bouotn,boutno,boutonn,boutton,buoton,obuton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bouton - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “bouton”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-T-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bu.tɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “bouts” - see the side-by-side comparison. bouton vs bouts
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.