bordage

\bɔʁ.daʒ\

/\bɔʁ.daʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“bordage” is uncommon French (frequency #64,978 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,978
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de border.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bordage · bordage · French

bordage · rank #64,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,978
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bonneterie

Nearest frequency peer: bonneterie (-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 « bordage »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bordage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bordage
PropertyValue
Headwordbordage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔʁ.daʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#64,978
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bordage » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).bordagetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « bonneterie » (#64,977), « bort » (#64,979), « bonbonne » (#64,976). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bordage » est au #64,978. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bordage is uncommon French at frequency #64,978 among 4,251 “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

  1. 1
    Action de border.
  2. 2
    Planche, fer ou acier revêtant le corps d’un bâtiment, tant à l’extérieur qu’à l'intérieur.
  3. 3
    Sorte de coffre en planches où l’on enferme le béton.
  4. 4
    Habitation agricole ; petite métairie.
  5. 5
    Droit seigneurial sur une maison appelée borde, qui ne pouvait être ni donnée ni vendue ni engagée par les bordiers ou débiteurs de ce droit.
  6. 6
    Protection 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.
  7. 7
    Bande de glace qui se forme sur le rivage des lacs et des rivières.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le bordage d’une robe, d’un chapeau.
  2. Le bateau, surchargé, s’enfonçait d’une façon inquiétante ; déjà l’eau effleurait la ligne du bordage, et au-dessus de la cabine réservée ou du pavillon (c’est le terme local) où nous nous étions retirés, continuaient les piétinements, les bruits de roulettes, les chocs de coffres interrompant le demi-sommeil fiévreux, plein de cauchemars étranges, qui no…

This word in other languages

planking(English)

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 "bordage"?
"bordage" is spelled B-O-R-D-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɔʁ.daʒ\.
What does "bordage" mean?
As a noun, "bordage" means: Action de border.
How do you pronounce "bordage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bordage" is \bɔʁ.daʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bordage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list