feuille de boucher

\fœj də bu.ʃe\

/\fœj də bu.ʃe\/ noun

The verdict

“feuille de boucher” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
18
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Couteau assez court, à lame très large et relativement lourd, utilisé principalement pour la découpe des os et la séparation des articulations. Il diffère du couperet par son tranchant se prolongea...

Key facts for feuille de boucher
PropertyValue
Headwordfeuille de boucher
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fœj də bu.ʃe\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “feuille de boucher” sits in French frequency

feuille de boucher falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for feuille de boucher is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fœj də bu.ʃe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Couteau assez court, à lame très large et relativement lourd, utilisé principalement pour la découpe des os et la séparation des articulations. Il diffère du couperet par son tranchant se prolongea...".

No misspelling variants are generated for feuille de boucher in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 feuille de boucher, spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -B-O-U-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Couteau assez court, à lame très large et relativement lourd, utilisé principalement pour la découpe des os et la séparation des articulations. Il diffère du couperet par son tranchant se prolongeant à l'avant du couteau.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feuille de boucher"?
"feuille de boucher" is spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -B-O-U-C-H-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \fœj də bu.ʃe\.
What does "feuille de boucher" mean?
As a noun, "feuille de boucher" means: Couteau assez court, à lame très large et relativement lourd, utilisé principalement pour la découpe des os et la séparation des articulations. Il diffère du couperet par son tranchant se prolongea...
How do you pronounce "feuille de boucher"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "feuille de boucher" is \fœj də bu.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “feuille de boucher”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is F-E-U-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -B-O-U-C-H-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \fœj də bu.ʃe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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