bordas
\bɔʁ.da\
The verdict
“bordas” is uncommon French (frequency #50,682 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,682
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe border.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bordas · bordas · French
bordas · rank #50,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,682
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bonin
Nearest frequency peer: Bonin (-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 « bordas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boh
boh
49,322 corpus weight
- bolo
bolo
49,321 corpus weight
- Bonin
Bonin
49,320 corpus weight
- bordas
bordas
49,319 corpus weight
- bossant
bossant
49,318 corpus weight
- bougeant
bougeant
49,317 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bordas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.da\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bordas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bordas is uncommon French at frequency #50,682 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɔʁ.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe border.".
bordas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bordas, spelled B-O-R-D-A-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe 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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