bulk
\bœlk\
The verdict
“bulk” is uncommon French (frequency #82,752 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,752
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélange grossier de plusieurs engrais simples, pour en faire un engrais composé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bulk · bulk · French
bulk · rank #82,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,752
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BRF
Nearest frequency peer: BRF (-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 « bulk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boussoles
boussoles
17,253 corpus weight
- bouturage
bouturage
17,252 corpus weight
- bracket
bracket
17,251 corpus weight
- BRF
BRF
17,250 corpus weight
- bulk
bulk
17,249 corpus weight
- bâtissons
bâtissons
17,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bulk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bulk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bœlk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bulk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bulk is uncommon French at frequency #82,752 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bœlk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bulk, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bulk, spelled B-U-L-K.
Definition
- 1Mélange grossier de plusieurs engrais simples, pour en faire un engrais composé.
- 2Vente en vrac d’ordinateurs ou de pièces détachées d’ordinateurs, généralement en version OEM, sans boîte ni manuel, normalement destinés à être conditionnés pour une revente au détail.
- 3(théorie des cordes) Espace-temps complet à 4 + n (n= 6 à 21 selon les théories) dimensions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bulk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La densité des engrais les plus courants est souvent donné par les constructeurs dans le manuel d’utilisation. Si ce n’est pas le cas, ou lorsqu’il s’agit d’engrais nouveaux ou de bulks, il faut alors soit demander cette densité au fournisseur, soit la mesurer soi-même […].
J’envisage le bulk, mais dans le commerce en ligne.
Antonyms
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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