bordait
\bɔʁ.dɛ\
The verdict
“bordait” is uncommon French (frequency #90,477 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,477
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe border.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bordait · bordait · French
bordait · rank #90,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,477
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bonasse
Nearest frequency peer: bonasse (-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 « bordait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Boch
Boch
9,530 corpus weight
- bodo
bodo
9,528 corpus weight
- boing
boing
9,527 corpus weight
- bonasse
bonasse
9,525 corpus weight
- bordait
bordait
9,524 corpus weight
- botton
botton
9,521 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bordait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bordait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bordait is uncommon French at frequency #90,477 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɔʁ.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe border.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bordait, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bordait, spelled B-O-R-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe border.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bordait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès lors (xxᵉ siècle) les fortifications déclassées seront vouées à la démolition, la zone « non ædificandi » qui les bordait pourra se déclochardiser et se bâtir.
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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