boutons
\bu.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“boutons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,789. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,789
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bouton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boutons · boutons · French
boutons · rank #6,789 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,789
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bisous
Nearest frequency peer: bisous (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « boutons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- barres
barres
93,215 corpus weight
- bec
bec
93,214 corpus weight
- bisous
bisous
93,213 corpus weight
- boutons
boutons
93,212 corpus weight
- bruits
bruits
93,211 corpus weight
- buteur
buteur
93,210 corpus weight
What this shows « boutons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | boutons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « boutons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around boutons (IPA \bu.tɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,789 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bouton.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for boutons, with forms such as "bboutons", "botuons", and "bouotns". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "bouts", "bretons", "bouton", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 boutons, spelled B-O-U-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bouton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boutons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vétérans chevronnés de la guerre des boutons, grands maraudeurs de pommes et abatteurs de noix, tous, garnements de dix à douze ans, nous avions ce printemps-là reformé notre association de bandits grimpeurs, pillards aériens et détrousseurs de nids.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboutons
- botuons
- bouotns
- boutnos
- boutonns
- boutonss
- boutosn
- bouttons
- buotons
- obutons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boutons - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "boutons", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).