bul
\byl\
The verdict
“bul” is uncommon French (frequency #76,385 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,385
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apocope de bulgare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bul · bul · French
bul · rank #76,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,385
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brunchs
Nearest frequency peer: brunchs (-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 « bul »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brancardiers
brancardiers
23,620 corpus weight
- bronn
bronn
23,619 corpus weight
- bronzette
bronzette
23,618 corpus weight
- brunchs
brunchs
23,617 corpus weight
- bul
bul
23,616 corpus weight
- béluga
béluga
23,613 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bul » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bul » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bul is uncommon French at frequency #76,385 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \byl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Apocope de bulgare.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bul, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 bul, spelled B-U-L.
Definition
- 1Apocope de bulgare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Laisse ton sous-verge emmener tes poilus et amène-toi manger un poulet. En m’entraînant, il m’explique : Un de mes types en a refait une couple dans une ferme bul. Il m’en a apporté un.
Il y a un village bul à quinze kilomètres.
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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