lampe bouillotte
\lɑ̃p bu.jɔt\
The verdict
“lampe bouillotte” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lampe autrefois destinée à éclairer une table sur laquelle était pratiqué le jeu de cartes appelé bouillotte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lampe bouillotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃p bu.jɔt\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lampe bouillotte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lampe bouillotte is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃p bu.jɔt\. 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: "Lampe autrefois destinée à éclairer une table sur laquelle était pratiqué le jeu de cartes appelé bouillotte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lampe bouillotte 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 lampe bouillotte, spelled L-A-M-P-E- -B-O-U-I-L-L-O-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lampe autrefois destinée à éclairer une table sur laquelle était pratiqué le jeu de cartes appelé bouillotte.
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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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-M-P-E- -B-O-U-I-L-L-O-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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