bullshit

/\bul.ʃit\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#37,211

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

bullshit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Paroles menteuses ou absurdes qui servent à persuader l’interlocuteur par la manière assurée de leur élocution plutôt que leur bien-fondé. Pronounced \bul.ʃit\.

Key facts for bullshit
PropertyValue
Headwordbullshit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bul.ʃit\
Letters8
Frequency rank#37,211
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bullshit in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bullshit is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bul.ʃit\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,211 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for bullshit, with forms such as "bbullshit", "blulshit", and "bullhsit". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 bullshit, spelled B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Paroles menteuses ou absurdes qui servent à persuader l’interlocuteur par la manière assurée de leur élocution plutôt que leur bien-fondé.
  2. 2
    Mensonges.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbullshit,blulshit,bullhsit,bullshhit,bullshitt,bullshti,bullsiht,bullsshit,bulshit,bulslhit,ubllshit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bullshit

Misspelling Variants of "bullshit"

bbullshit9blulshit8bullhsit8bullshhit9bullshitt9bullshti8bullsiht8bullsshit9
Misspelling Variants of "bullshit"

Frequency rank: #37,211 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bullshit"?
"bullshit" is spelled B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bul.ʃit\.
What does "bullshit" mean?
As a noun, "bullshit" means: Paroles menteuses ou absurdes qui servent à persuader l’interlocuteur par la manière assurée de leur élocution plutôt que leur bien-fondé.
What are common misspellings of "bullshit"?
Common misspellings include "bbullshit", "blulshit", "bullhsit", "bullshhit", "bullshitt". The correct spelling is "bullshit".
How do you pronounce "bullshit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bullshit" is \bul.ʃit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bullshit" come from?
"bullshit" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.