bordeau

\bɔʁ.do\

/\bɔʁ.do\/ noun

The verdict

“bordeau” is uncommon French (frequency #79,103 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,103
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-bordeau · bordeau · French

bordeau · rank #79,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,103
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH boostez

Nearest frequency peer: boostez (-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 « bordeau »

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 « bordeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bordeau
PropertyValue
Headwordbordeau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɔʁ.do\
Letters7
Frequency rank#79,103
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bordeau » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).bordeautombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « boostez » (#79,102), « bontés » (#79,101), « borough » (#79,105). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bordeau » est au #79,103. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bordeau is uncommon French at frequency #79,103 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔʁ.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de bordel.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bordeau, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bordeau, spelled B-O-R-D-E-A-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de bordel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Qui mettent à l’encan l’honneur dans les bordeaux.
  2. Quant aux autres membres du sacré collège Tonto, Lanfranco , Philonardo et quelques-uns de leurs collègues, ce serait pis encore si on leur demandait quelle profession ils exerçaient avant de passer cardinaux , l'un était sonneur d'orgues […]; le seigneur Philonardo était souteneur de filles dans un bordeau; un quatrième était chef d'une bande de voleurs,…

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

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list