# bourne

> English word · Noun · IPA /bɔːn/ · frequency rank #18,255

## Definitions
1. A boundary; a limit.
2. A goal or destination.

## Etymology
From Middle French borne, from Old French bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, a word of unknown ultimate origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also Proto-Celtic *bundos.

## Easily confused with
- **burn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-burn)
- **burns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-burns)
- **burnt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-burnt)
- **burke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-burke)
- **Byrne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-byrne)
- **burned** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-burned)
- **burner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-burner)
- **bovine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-bovine)
- **burnet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-burnet)
- **Burney** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bourne-vs-burney)
- **born** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/born-vs-bourne)
- **bone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bone-vs-bourne)
- **bore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bore-vs-bourne)
- **bound** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bound-vs-bourne)
- **borne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/borne-vs-bourne)
- **Boone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boone-vs-bourne)
- **Berne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/berne-vs-bourne)
- **bonne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bonne-vs-bourne)
- **bounce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bounce-vs-bourne)
- **Borneo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/borneo-vs-bourne)

## Common misspellings (8)
`bbourne`, `borune`, `bounre`, `bouren`, `bournne`, `bourrne`, `buorne`, `oburne`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bourne