buissière
\bɥi.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“buissière” is uncommon French (frequency #88,420 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,420
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu planté de buis (→ voir buissaie).
Corpus desk
Index FR-buissiere · buissière · French
buissière · rank #88,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,420
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brème
Nearest frequency peer: brème (-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 « buissière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brouillant
brouillant
11,585 corpus weight
- bruncher
bruncher
11,583 corpus weight
- brème
brème
11,582 corpus weight
- buissière
buissière
11,581 corpus weight
- Buonaparte
Buonaparte
11,580 corpus weight
- bursa
bursa
11,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « buissière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buissière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɥi.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buissière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buissière is uncommon French at frequency #88,420 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɥi.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu planté de buis (→ voir buissaie).".
buissière doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is buissière, spelled B-U-I-S-S-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu planté de buis (→ voir buissaie).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how buissière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hop ! la voilà partie, la tête en avant, à travers les maquis et les buissières.
Nous allions dénicher les chardonnerets dans les buissières, poser des moulineaux sur les rigoles des prés ou bien patauger au gué de la rivière pour prendre des écrevisses à la main.
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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