beurgeois
\bœʁ.ʒwa\
The verdict
“beurgeois” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne issue de l’immigration maghrébine et ayant réussi sur le plan socioprofessionnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beurgeois · beurgeois · French
beurgeois · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beurgeois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bœʁ.ʒwa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « beurgeois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
beurgeois is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bœʁ.ʒwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne issue de l’immigration maghrébine et ayant réussi sur le plan socioprofessionnel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for beurgeois, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is beurgeois, spelled B-E-U-R-G-E-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Personne issue de l’immigration maghrébine et ayant réussi sur le plan socioprofessionnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beurgeois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ouvrage de Catherine Wihtol de Wenden et Rémy Leveau paru en 2001 « La beurgeoisie : les trois âges de la vie associative issue de l'immigration » a consacré le terme beurgeois.
On dit de moi que je suis d‘origine étrangère, un beur, une racaille, un islamiste, un délinquant, un sauvageon, un «beurgeois», un enfant issu de l’immigration... Mais jamais un Français, Français tout court.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.