bourse
/bʊəs/
"bourse" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bourse” is uncommon English (frequency #54,055 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,055
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stock exchange.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bourse · bourse · English
bourse · rank #54,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,055
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH borax
Nearest frequency peer: borax (-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 “bourse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blurt
blurt
45,951 corpus weight
- BMJ
BMJ
45,950 corpus weight
- borax
borax
45,947 corpus weight
- bourse
bourse
45,946 corpus weight
- braving
braving
45,944 corpus weight
- bricked
bricked
45,943 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bourse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bʊəs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bourse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bourse is uncommon English at frequency #54,055 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bʊəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bourse in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare Danish børs, Swedish börs, German Börse. See also bursar. The correct English form is bourse, spelled B-O-U-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1A stock exchange.
- 2A stock exchange.
- 3A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
- 4The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bourse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourse.
Etymology
Borrowed from French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare Danish børs, Swedish börs, German Börse. See also bursar.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).