Bukavu
\bu.ka.vu\
The verdict
“Bukavu” is uncommon French (frequency #57,132 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,132
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de la République démocratique du Congo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bukavu · Bukavu · French
Bukavu · rank #57,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,132
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH buffets
Nearest frequency peer: buffets (-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 « Bukavu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brillaient
brillaient
42,873 corpus weight
- brouillée
brouillée
42,872 corpus weight
- bucher
bucher
42,871 corpus weight
- buffets
buffets
42,870 corpus weight
- Bukavu
Bukavu
42,869 corpus weight
- bulldozers
bulldozers
42,868 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bukavu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bukavu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bu.ka.vu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bukavu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bukavu is uncommon French at frequency #57,132 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bu.ka.vu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de la République démocratique du Congo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bukavu in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Bukavu, spelled B-U-K-A-V-U.
Definition
- 1Ville de la République démocratique du Congo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bukavu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fin juillet, pendant que les derniers soldats rwandais en terre congolaise pliaient bagage, les civils tutsis s’empressaient de quitter la capitale pour se réfugier à Goma, Bukavu, Kigali ou Brazzaville.
Katana ne se trouve pas si loin de Bukavu, mais vu l’état lamentable des routes, c’est quand même une mini-aventure que de s’y rendre.
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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