borborygme
\bɔʁ.bɔ.ʁiɡm\
The verdict
“borborygme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bruit que font entendre les gaz contenus dans l’abdomen quand ils se déplacent au milieu des liquides contenus dans les intestins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-borborygme · borborygme · French
borborygme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | borborygme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.bɔ.ʁiɡm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “borborygme” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
borborygme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔʁ.bɔ.ʁiɡm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for borborygme in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is borborygme, spelled B-O-R-B-O-R-Y-G-M-E.
Definition
- 1Bruit que font entendre les gaz contenus dans l’abdomen quand ils se déplacent au milieu des liquides contenus dans les intestins.
- 2Bruit de gaz ou de liquides à l’intérieur de tuyaux ou de conduites.
- 3Paroles incompréhensibles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how borborygme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’entends les boyaux de mon père qui grognent comme un tonnerre sous une voûte : les miens hurlent ; — c’est un échange de borborygmes ; ma mère ne peut empêcher, elle aussi, des glouglous et des bâillements ; mais elle a dit, à la station, qu’il ne fallait pas dîner et l’on ne mangera pas avant demain. On ne man-ge-ra pas.
Des nausées l'assiégeaient et des borborygmes travaillaient sournoisement ses intestins.
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