bouture
\bu.tyʁ\
The verdict
“bouture” is uncommon French (frequency #75,457 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,457
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Branche d’un arbre ou d’une plante vivace que l’on sépare de la tige et qui, étant plantée en terre, y prend racine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouture · bouture · French
bouture · rank #75,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,457
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boulier
Nearest frequency peer: boulier (-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 « bouture »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boucicaut
Boucicaut
24,548 corpus weight
- bouffonnerie
bouffonnerie
24,547 corpus weight
- boulier
boulier
24,545 corpus weight
- bouture
bouture
24,544 corpus weight
- branca
branca
24,542 corpus weight
- Braxton
Braxton
24,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouture » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouture » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouture is uncommon French at frequency #75,457 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bouture has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bouture, spelled B-O-U-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Branche d’un arbre ou d’une plante vivace que l’on sépare de la tige et qui, étant plantée en terre, y prend racine.
- 2Liquide pour blanchir les monnaies.
- 3Partie filamenteuse. On les enlève avec une étire ou un butoir, c'est l'opération du butage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bouture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trembley trouvait donc ici deux grands phénomènes, jusque-là regardés comme appartenant exclusivement aux végétaux, la reproduction par boutures et la multiplication par bourgeons ; mais en même temps il voyait ces prétendues plantes se nourrir à la façon des animaux chasseurs.
Malgré son excessive floribondité, elle donne rarement des graines, et on en est réduit à la multiplier de boutures et de couchages.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).