Bourges
/ˈbʊəʒ/
"bourges" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bourges” is an uncommon English word, ranked #95,758 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #95,758
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A cathedral city, the capital of Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bourges |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈbʊəʒ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bourges” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Bourges is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbʊəʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #95,758 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A cathedral city, the capital of Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bourges, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is Bourges, spelled B-O-U-R-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1A cathedral city, the capital of Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
This word in other languages
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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Using “Bourges”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-U-R-G-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbʊəʒ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.