bourguignon
"bourguignon" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bourguignon” is uncommon English (frequency #88,142 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,142
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beef bourguignon, or a similar dish replacing beef with some other ingredient.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bourguignon · bourguignon · English
bourguignon · rank #88,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,142
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH boudin
Nearest frequency peer: boudin (-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 “bourguignon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Botelho
Botelho
11,862 corpus weight
- bothy
bothy
11,861 corpus weight
- boudin
boudin
11,860 corpus weight
- bourguignon
bourguignon
11,859 corpus weight
- bouton
bouton
11,858 corpus weight
- Braham
Braham
11,857 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bourguignon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourguignon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bourguignon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bourguignon is uncommon English at frequency #88,142 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Beef bourguignon, or a similar dish replacing beef with some other ingredient.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bourguignon, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is bourguignon, spelled B-O-U-R-G-U-I-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Beef bourguignon, or a similar dish replacing beef with some other ingredient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bourguignon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] he brought it all up in one of those ice boxes, along with clams and scallops and bread, shortbread even. The guy would freeze his arm if he thought he could make a nice bourguignon with it.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).