bouviers
\bu.vje\
The verdict
“bouviers” is uncommon French (frequency #91,465 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,465
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bouvier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bouviers · bouviers · French
bouviers · rank #91,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,465
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouquiniste
Nearest frequency peer: bouquiniste (-2 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 « bouviers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boug
boug
8,540 corpus weight
- boundary
boundary
8,539 corpus weight
- bouquiniste
bouquiniste
8,538 corpus weight
- bouviers
bouviers
8,536 corpus weight
- braid
braid
8,534 corpus weight
- breed
breed
8,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bouviers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouviers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.vje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bouviers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bouviers is uncommon French at frequency #91,465 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.vje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bouvier.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bouviers in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 bouviers, spelled B-O-U-V-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bouvier.
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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