Buñuel
The verdict
“Buñuel” is uncommon French (frequency #80,012 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,012
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bunuel · Buñuel · French
Buñuel · rank #80,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,012
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bumblebee
Nearest frequency peer: bumblebee (-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 « Buñuel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bubonique
bubonique
19,993 corpus weight
- buda
buda
19,992 corpus weight
- bumblebee
bumblebee
19,990 corpus weight
- Buñuel
Buñuel
19,989 corpus weight
- Bébert
Bébert
19,987 corpus weight
- béryllium
béryllium
19,986 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Buñuel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Buñuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Buñuel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Buñuel is uncommon French at frequency #80,012 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Buñuel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Buñuel, spelled B-U-Ñ-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Buñuel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Luis Buñuel.
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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