boutonne
\bu.tɔn\
The verdict
“boutonne” is uncommon French (frequency #71,306 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,306
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boutonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boutonne · boutonne · French
boutonne · rank #71,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bourgueil
Nearest frequency peer: Bourgueil (-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 « boutonne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bourcier
Bourcier
28,698 corpus weight
- Bourgueil
Bourgueil
28,696 corpus weight
- boutonne
boutonne
28,695 corpus weight
- brahmanes
brahmanes
28,694 corpus weight
- breakdance
breakdance
28,693 corpus weight
- brelan
brelan
28,692 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « boutonne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boutonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.tɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « boutonne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
boutonne is uncommon French at frequency #71,306 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bu.tɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for boutonne in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is boutonne, spelled B-O-U-T-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boutonner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe boutonner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe boutonner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe boutonner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe boutonner.
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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