bumper
\bœm.pəʁ\
The verdict
“bumper” is uncommon French (frequency #63,582 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,582
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’un flipper sur laquelle la boule rebondit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bumper · bumper · French
bumper · rank #63,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,582
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH brûles
Nearest frequency peer: brûles (-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 « bumper »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Brits
Brits
36,423 corpus weight
- bruine
bruine
36,422 corpus weight
- brûles
brûles
36,420 corpus weight
- bumper
bumper
36,419 corpus weight
- Burrell
Burrell
36,417 corpus weight
- Busquets
Busquets
36,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bumper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bumper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bœm.pəʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bumper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bumper is uncommon French at frequency #63,582 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bœm.pəʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bumper, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bumper, spelled B-U-M-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Partie d’un flipper sur laquelle la boule rebondit.
- 2Pare-chocs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bumper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Quand vous êtes dans leur moitié, ça doit faire comme les bumpers d’un flipper. On doit rien voir, rien comprendre. Surtout, faut pas réfléchir. Si vous réfléchissez, c’est trop tard.
Il a fait une poque sur mon bumper.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).