Bourg
/bɜː(ɹ)/
"bourg" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bourg” is uncommon English (frequency #69,695 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,695
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bourg · Bourg · English
Bourg · rank #69,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,695
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH borscht
Nearest frequency peer: borscht (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Bourg”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bluntness
bluntness
30,310 corpus weight
- bocce
bocce
30,309 corpus weight
- borscht
borscht
30,307 corpus weight
- Bourg
Bourg
30,306 corpus weight
- boxwood
boxwood
30,304 corpus weight
- breadfruit
breadfruit
30,303 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bourg” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bourg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /bɜː(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bourg” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bourg is uncommon English at frequency #69,695 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /bɜː(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bourg, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Anglo-Norman word burgh. The correct English form is Bourg, spelled B-O-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
- 2A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.
Etymology
From the Anglo-Norman word burgh.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).