bouturage
\bu.ty.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“bouturage” is uncommon French (frequency #82,749 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,749
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mode de multiplication végétative de certaines plantes consistant à se reproduire à partir d'un organe ou d'un fragment d'organe isolé sans avoir besoin de produire de graine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouturage · bouturage · French
bouturage · rank #82,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,749
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boussoles
Nearest frequency peer: boussoles (-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 « bouturage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bouquinistes
bouquinistes
17,255 corpus weight
- bourdonneme…
bourdonnements
17,254 corpus weight
- boussoles
boussoles
17,253 corpus weight
- bouturage
bouturage
17,252 corpus weight
- bracket
bracket
17,251 corpus weight
- BRF
BRF
17,250 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouturage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouturage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ty.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouturage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouturage is uncommon French at frequency #82,749 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ty.ʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bouturage doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bouturage, spelled B-O-U-T-U-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Mode de multiplication végétative de certaines plantes consistant à se reproduire à partir d'un organe ou d'un fragment d'organe isolé sans avoir besoin de produire de graine.
- 2Action de bouturer.
- 3Multiplication collective sans vol nuptial où une colonie d'insectes sociaux (principalement les fourmis et les termites) se divise pour en fonder une nouvelle. La multiplication par envol de sexués est l'essaimage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouturage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean-Marie Puff, quelques années après, entreprend une nouvelle spéculation sur l'île du Frioul. Il fait de la spongiculture, élevage d'éponges naturelles par bouturage sur cordes, soutenu par Spontex.
Une autre méthode consiste à tremper le plant préparé dans une solution d’hormone de bouturage, telle que l'Exubérone® qui contient 4 g/L d’acide β-indole acétique.
Synonyms
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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