buccales
\by.kal\
The verdict
“buccales” is uncommon French (frequency #65,757 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,757
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de buccal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buccales · buccales · French
buccales · rank #65,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,757
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Buc
Nearest frequency peer: Buc (-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 « buccales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Britannicus
Britannicus
34,247 corpus weight
- broyée
broyée
34,246 corpus weight
- Buc
Buc
34,245 corpus weight
- buccales
buccales
34,244 corpus weight
- buen
buen
34,243 corpus weight
- Burgundy
Burgundy
34,242 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « buccales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buccales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \by.kal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buccales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buccales is uncommon French at frequency #65,757 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \by.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de buccal.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for buccales, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is buccales, spelled B-U-C-C-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de buccal.
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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