bubu
\by.by\
The verdict
“bubu” is uncommon French (frequency #97,739 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,739
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bureaucrate, statut d’utilisateur permettant la modification des droits des autres utilisateurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bubu · bubu · French
bubu · rank #97,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,739
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bueil
Nearest frequency peer: Bueil (+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 « bubu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brieux
brieux
2,266 corpus weight
- bromance
bromance
2,265 corpus weight
- bronchiques
bronchiques
2,264 corpus weight
- bubu
bubu
2,262 corpus weight
- Bueil
Bueil
2,261 corpus weight
- bums
bums
2,260 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bubu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bubu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.by\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bubu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bubu is uncommon French at frequency #97,739 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.by\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bureaucrate, statut d’utilisateur permettant la modification des droits des autres utilisateurs.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bubu in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bubu, spelled B-U-B-U.
Definition
- 1Bureaucrate, statut d’utilisateur permettant la modification des droits des autres utilisateurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bubu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis une mise à jour du logiciel, les droits d’admin et de bubu ont été séparés : on peut maintenant être bureaucrate (avoir le droit de renommer des comptes, faire des bots, donner les droits d'admin) sans être soi-même admin (sans avoir le droit de supprimer et tout ça).
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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