bust
\ˈbʌst\
The verdict
“bust” is uncommon French (frequency #74,629 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,629
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Buste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bust · bust · French
bust · rank #74,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,629
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burma
Nearest frequency peer: burma (-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 « bust »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brûlons
brûlons
25,375 corpus weight
- burma
burma
25,373 corpus weight
- bust
bust
25,372 corpus weight
- Butterfield
Butterfield
25,371 corpus weight
- calamars
calamars
25,369 corpus weight
- calmars
calmars
25,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bust » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bust |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbʌst\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bust » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bust is uncommon French at frequency #74,629 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbʌst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bust in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 bust, spelled B-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1Buste.
- 2Buste (de femme).
- 3Tour de poitrine.
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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