bordage
\bɔʁ.daʒ\
The verdict
“bordage” is uncommon French (frequency #64,978 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,978
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de border.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bordage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bordage is uncommon French at frequency #64,978 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔʁ.daʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bordage, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bordage, spelled B-O-R-D-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de border.
- 2Planche, fer ou acier revêtant le corps d’un bâtiment, tant à l’extérieur qu’à l'intérieur.
- 3Sorte de coffre en planches où l’on enferme le béton.
- 4Habitation agricole ; petite métairie.
- 5Droit seigneurial sur une maison appelée borde, qui ne pouvait être ni donnée ni vendue ni engagée par les bordiers ou débiteurs de ce droit.
- 6Protection des bords d’une carte ou d’un document de rédaction, au moyen d’une étroite bande de toile ou de plastique repliée le long du bord du support et collée sur ses deux faces.
- 7Bande de glace qui se forme sur le rivage des lacs et des rivières.
This word in other languages
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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Using “bordage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-R-D-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.