buller
\by.le\
The verdict
“buller” is uncommon French (frequency #84,589 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,589
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sceller d’une bulle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buller · buller · French
buller · rank #84,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,589
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brouage
Nearest frequency peer: Brouage (-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 « buller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brito
brito
15,415 corpus weight
- Brouage
Brouage
15,413 corpus weight
- buller
buller
15,412 corpus weight
- Bundeswehr
Bundeswehr
15,411 corpus weight
- burel
burel
15,409 corpus weight
- burins
burins
15,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « buller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \by.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buller is uncommon French at frequency #84,589 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \by.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for buller in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is buller, spelled B-U-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sceller d’une bulle.
- 2Présenter des bulles, des cloques
- 3Ne rien faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how buller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne sait pas assez que du VIᵉ au XIᵉ siècle au moins tout fonctionnaire byzantin, quel que fut son grade, tout intellectuel, savant moine ou clerc lettré, tout aristocrate, quelle que fut sa classe, eurent leur sceau. Il semblerait même qu’aux Xᵉ et XIᵉ siècles, chacun dans l’empire ait bullé avec frénésie.
Si on ne fait pas attention, le papier peint peut buller.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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