bulot
\by.lo\
The verdict
“bulot” is uncommon French (frequency #81,839 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,839
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des noms vernaculaires des différents représentants de la famille des Buccinidae utilisé entre autre sur les côtes picardes, normandes ainsi que sur les côtes charentaises
Corpus desk
Index FR-bulot · bulot · French
bulot · rank #81,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,839
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH budo
Nearest frequency peer: budo (-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 « bulot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brugge
Brugge
18,166 corpus weight
- Buckland
Buckland
18,165 corpus weight
- budo
budo
18,163 corpus weight
- bulot
bulot
18,162 corpus weight
- butcher
butcher
18,160 corpus weight
- Béchu
Béchu
18,159 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bulot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bulot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bulot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bulot is uncommon French at frequency #81,839 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bulot in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 bulot, spelled B-U-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Un des noms vernaculaires des différents représentants de la famille des Buccinidae utilisé entre autre sur les côtes picardes, normandes ainsi que sur les côtes charentaises
- 2Imbécile, idiot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bulot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nos marins avaient eu la bonne fortune de trouver sur les bancs un coquillage désigné sous le nom de bulot, pouvant remplacer la boëtte.
Il me semble qu’à chaque fois j’ai pris des bulots mayonnaise et un homard Thermidor, et qu’à chaque fois j’ai trouvé ça bon, je n’ai jamais éprouvé le besoin, ni même le désir d’explorer le reste de la carte.
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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