bugle
\byɡl\
The verdict
“bugle” is uncommon French (frequency #83,677 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,677
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuivre (instrument à vent) de la famille des saxhorns, ressemblant à une trompette en si ♭.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bugle · bugle · French
bugle · rank #83,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,677
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brutaliser
Nearest frequency peer: brutaliser (-2 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 « bugle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bruguière
Bruguière
16,328 corpus weight
- brumisateur
brumisateur
16,327 corpus weight
- brutaliser
brutaliser
16,326 corpus weight
- bugle
bugle
16,324 corpus weight
- cacaoyer
cacaoyer
16,322 corpus weight
- cachou
cachou
16,320 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bugle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bugle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byɡl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bugle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bugle is uncommon French at frequency #83,677 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \byɡl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bugle, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bugle, spelled B-U-G-L-E.
Definition
- 1Cuivre (instrument à vent) de la famille des saxhorns, ressemblant à une trompette en si ♭.
- 2Clairon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bugle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On dansait dans les carrefours, au son des pistons et des bugles, sur la sciure de bois, sous les lanternes vénitiennes.
Mais on s’en sortait tout de même, en s’arrangeant pour faire donner la grosse caisse aux passages où le bugle avait à jouer.
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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