buquet
\by.kɛ\
The verdict
“buquet” is uncommon French (frequency #78,216 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,216
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument qui servait à remuer l'indigo dans la cuve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buquet · buquet · French
buquet · rank #78,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,216
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bénéficions
Nearest frequency peer: bénéficions (+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 « buquet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bullion
bullion
21,787 corpus weight
- buquet
buquet
21,785 corpus weight
- bénéficions
bénéficions
21,784 corpus weight
- Cadmus
Cadmus
21,783 corpus weight
- cado
cado
21,782 corpus weight
- cajoler
cajoler
21,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « buquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buquet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buquet is uncommon French at frequency #78,216 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument qui servait à remuer l'indigo dans la cuve.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for buquet in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is buquet, spelled B-U-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Instrument qui servait à remuer l'indigo dans la cuve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how buquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu remues la cuve avec le buquet; l’indigo et l’atun se mélangent alors et se fondent.
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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