bouvreuil
French, noun/bu.vʁœj/
bouvreuil is spelled B-O-U-V-R-E-U-I-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouvreuil is a French masculine noun meaning “bullfinch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit passereau d'Eurasie ou des Açores, voisin des pinsons, au bec gros et court, dont le plumage est de…”.
What does bouvreuil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebullfinch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit passereau d'Eurasie ou des Açores, voisin des pinsons, au bec gros et court, dont le plumage est de plusieurs couleurs (ailes et queue noires, croupion blanc), et qui chante assez agréablement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bouvreuil
- bouvreuils plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bouvreuil?
- /bu.vʁœj/
- \bu.vʁœj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bouvreuil in French?
bouvreuil appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).