prendre la bûche
The verdict
“prendre la bûche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Choir ; tomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prendre-la-buche · prendre la bûche · French
prendre la bûche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | prendre la bûche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prendre la bûche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prendre la bûche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Choir ; tomber.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for prendre la bûche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prendre la bûche, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-A- -B-Û-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Choir ; tomber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prendre la bûche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De temps en temps, un des glisseurs perdait bien l’équilibre, culbutait et tous ceux qui suivaient prenaient la bûche derrière lui, roulant l’un sur l’autre parmi la neige fine qui vous glaçait les doigts et vous fichait l’onglée.
Synonyms
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.