Bourges
/ˈbʊəʒ/
"bourges" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bourges” is uncommon English (frequency #95,758 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,758
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cathedral city, the capital of Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bourges · Bourges · English
Bourges · rank #95,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,758
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH botts
Nearest frequency peer: botts (-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 “Bourges”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bodyline
bodyline
4,248 corpus weight
- Bonanno
Bonanno
4,246 corpus weight
- botts
botts
4,244 corpus weight
- Bourges
Bourges
4,243 corpus weight
- brads
brads
4,240 corpus weight
- Brahm
Brahm
4,238 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bourges” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Bourges” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bourges is uncommon English at frequency #95,758 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈbʊəʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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