buse
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,321
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
buse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oiseau de proie, rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, du genre Buteo, au plumage brun tacheté et que l’on considère comme dépourvu d’intelligence et dont il existe plusieurs... Pronounced \byz\. Often confused with but and bye.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for buse is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \byz\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,321 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for buse, with forms such as "bbuse", "bsue", and "bues". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "but", "bye", "buy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is buse, spelled B-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oiseau de proie, rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, du genre Buteo, au plumage brun tacheté et que l’on considère comme dépourvu d’intelligence et dont il existe plusieurs espèces en Europe.
- 2Personne ignorante, stupide ou bornée ; sot, idiot.
- 3Échec à une élection, à un examen etc.
- 4Meuble représentant un disque de couleur rouge dans les armoiries. Il s’agit de l’ancien nom du tourteau de gueules, bien que certains auteurs l’ont également donné au tourteau de pourpre. À rapprocher de besant, besant-tourteau, gulpe, guse, heurte, œil de faucon, ogoesse, plate, pomme, somme, tourteau, tourteau-besant et volet.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbuse,bsue,bues,busse,ubse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for buse
Misspelling Variants of "buse"
Frequency rank: #32,321 in French
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