buveuse
\by.vøz\
The verdict
“buveuse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui boit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buveuse · buveuse · French
buveuse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buveuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.vøz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buveuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buveuse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.vøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for buveuse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is buveuse, spelled B-U-V-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui boit.
- 2Femme qui aime le vin et les alcools, qui est sujette à eux et qui boit beaucoup.
- 3Synonyme de bombyx buveur (papillon).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how buveuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était le temps où le regretté Louis Delluc adressait des lettres en vers aux buveuses de lait du Pré-Catelan, tandis que Jules Lemaître, de l’Académie française, nationaliste des Champs-Élysées, préfaçait de petits bouquins charmants consacrés au Chat Noir et illustrés par Gus Bofa.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.