bubonique
\by.bɔ.nik\
The verdict
“bubonique” is uncommon French (frequency #80,008 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,008
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est caractérisé par des bubons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bubonique · bubonique · French
bubonique · rank #80,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,008
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH buda
Nearest frequency peer: buda (+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 « bubonique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brunehaut
Brunehaut
19,997 corpus weight
- brunelle
brunelle
19,996 corpus weight
- bsr
bsr
19,995 corpus weight
- bubonique
bubonique
19,993 corpus weight
- buda
buda
19,992 corpus weight
- bumblebee
bumblebee
19,990 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bubonique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bubonique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \by.bɔ.nik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bubonique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bubonique is uncommon French at frequency #80,008 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \by.bɔ.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est caractérisé par des bubons.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bubonique, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bubonique, spelled B-U-B-O-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est caractérisé par des bubons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bubonique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peste bubonique.
N’ai-je donc jamais souhaité d’être un médecin héroïque et de sauver mes concitoyens de la peste bubonique et du choléra ? Jamais, je l’avoue.
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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