reboucher
\ʁə.bu.ʃe\
The verdict
“reboucher” is uncommon French (frequency #69,362 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,362
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boucher de nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reboucher · reboucher · French
reboucher · rank #69,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,362
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ravitailleurs
Nearest frequency peer: ravitailleurs (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « reboucher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rash
rash
30,642 corpus weight
- rassurera
rassurera
30,641 corpus weight
- ravitailleu…
ravitailleurs
30,640 corpus weight
- reboucher
reboucher
30,639 corpus weight
- rechuter
rechuter
30,638 corpus weight
- recommencer…
recommencerai
30,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reboucher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reboucher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.bu.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reboucher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reboucher is uncommon French at frequency #69,362 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.bu.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for reboucher, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is reboucher, spelled R-E-B-O-U-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Boucher de nouveau.
- 2Boucher un trou, une fissure qui s’est formé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reboucher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa spécialité consistait à scier les dés et à les piper. Il m'expliqua l'opération, car achetant lui-même l'ivoire, il le débitait en petits cubes dont il forait certains côtés pour les bourrer de plomb, en ayant soin de reboucher ensuite les trous à l'aide d'un mélange de poudre d'os et de sécotine.
Mais aujourd'hui, la modernisation des installations fait planer un grave péril sur les 70 sites fortifiés à usage agricole. A Cussy-le-Châtel, à Chalvosson (Villaines), à Chevigny-lès-Millery, les exploitants rebouchent subrepticement les fossés pour étendre leurs bâtiments.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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