borda
\bɔʁ.da\
The verdict
“borda” is uncommon French (frequency #65,746 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,746
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de border.
Corpus desk
Index FR-borda · borda · French
borda · rank #65,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,746
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bormes
Nearest frequency peer: Bormes (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « borda »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bodega
bodega
34,258 corpus weight
- bodies
bodies
34,257 corpus weight
- borda
borda
34,255 corpus weight
- Bormes
Bormes
34,254 corpus weight
- bornage
bornage
34,253 corpus weight
- boueuses
boueuses
34,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « borda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.da\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « borda » en français
Rare enough to double-check
borda is uncommon French at frequency #65,746 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɔʁ.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de border.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for borda, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is borda, spelled B-O-R-D-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de border.
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.
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