bums
\bɔm\
The verdict
“bums” is uncommon French (frequency #97,741 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,741
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bums · bums · French
bums · rank #97,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,741
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bueil
Nearest frequency peer: Bueil (-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 « bums »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bromance
bromance
2,265 corpus weight
- bronchiques
bronchiques
2,264 corpus weight
- bubu
bubu
2,262 corpus weight
- Bueil
Bueil
2,261 corpus weight
- bums
bums
2,260 corpus weight
- bushido
bushido
2,258 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bums » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bums |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bums » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bums is uncommon French at frequency #97,741 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bum.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bums in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bums, spelled B-U-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bum.
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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