beur

\bœʁ\

/\bœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“beur” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,722) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#36,722
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne d’origine maghrébine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-beur · beur · French

beur · rank #36,722 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,722
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH berlines

Nearest frequency peer: berlines (-1 rank slots)

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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « beur »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « beur » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

beur vs bu
50% similar
beur vs Br
25% similar
beur vs but
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for beur
PropertyValue
Headwordbeur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bœʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#36,722
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « beur »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).beurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « berlines » (#36,721), « bienséance » (#36,723), « baryton » (#36,720). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « beur » est au #36,722. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for beur is neighbouring look-alikes ("bu", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bœʁ\. Frequency #36,722 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Personne d’origine maghrébine.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for beur, with forms such as "bbeur", "beru", and "beurr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bu", "Br", "but", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is beur, spelled B-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne d’origine maghrébine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how beur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’amitié entre un Français et un beur a été symbolisée par le film Tchao Pantin de Claude Berri, adapté du roman d’Alain Page.
  2. Ils avaient reçu un nom collectif qui signifiait tout à la fois leur origine, leur couleur de peau et leur façon de parler : les Beurs. Par dérision on leur attribuait un je parle la France. Ils étaient nombreux, on ne les connaissait pas.

Synonyms

rebeureubeu

Antonyms

jambon-beurre

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbeur
  • beru
  • beurr
  • ebur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

bbeur1beru2beurr1ebur2
Edit distance from "beur"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "beur"?
"beur" is spelled B-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \bœʁ\.
What does "beur" mean?
As a noun, "beur" means: Personne d’origine maghrébine.
What words are commonly confused with "beur"?
"beur" is commonly confused with "bu", "Br", "but". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "beur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "beur" is \bœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "beur" come from?
"beur" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "beur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bans#36,719ANSM#36,702CNAM#36,764coms#36,773

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list