Buche
\buː.xə\
The verdict
“Buche” is uncommon French (frequency #78,211 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,211
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hêtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buche · Buche · French
Buche · rank #78,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,211
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brégançon
Nearest frequency peer: Brégançon (-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 « Buche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brouilleur
brouilleur
21,794 corpus weight
- brouillées
brouillées
21,793 corpus weight
- Brégançon
Brégançon
21,791 corpus weight
- Buche
Buche
21,790 corpus weight
- bullion
bullion
21,787 corpus weight
- buquet
buquet
21,785 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Buche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Buche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buː.xə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Buche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Buche is uncommon French at frequency #78,211 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buː.xə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hêtre.".
Buche doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Buche, spelled B-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Hêtre.
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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