jeu du bouchon
\ʒø dy bu.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“jeu du bouchon” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Jeu populaire pratiqué en plein air avec un bouchon ou un objet équivalent, sur lequel sont placées des pièces de monnaie qu'il s'agit de faire tomber à l'aide de palets.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeu du bouchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒø dy bu.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jeu du bouchon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jeu du bouchon is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒø dy bu.ʃɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for jeu du bouchon 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 jeu du bouchon, spelled J-E-U- -D-U- -B-O-U-C-H-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu populaire pratiqué en plein air avec un bouchon ou un objet équivalent, sur lequel sont placées des pièces de monnaie qu'il s'agit de faire tomber à l'aide de palets.
- 2Jeu de table, pratiqué avec des bouchons et des cartes à jouer.
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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Using “jeu du bouchon”
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-U- -D-U- -B-O-U-C-H-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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