bulbe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,865
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bulbe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Organe végétal souterrain formé par un bourgeon entouré de feuilles charnues, permettant à la plante de reformer chaque année ses parties aériennes. Pronounced \bylb\. Often confused with bull and bute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bulbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bylb\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bulbe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bylb\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,865 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bulbe, with forms such as "bbulbe", "blube", and "buble". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bull", "bute", "bure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bulbe, spelled B-U-L-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Organe végétal souterrain formé par un bourgeon entouré de feuilles charnues, permettant à la plante de reformer chaque année ses parties aériennes.
- 2Certaines parties renflées, globuleuses.
- 3Toiture, dôme à renflement bulbeux typique de l'architecture musulmane ou baroque.
- 4Lest de forme bombée placé sous la quille d’un voilier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbulbe,blube,buble,bulbbe,buleb,bullbe,ublbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bulbe
Misspelling Variants of "bulbe"
Frequency rank: #28,865 in French
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