bordeau
\bɔʁ.do\
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
- bombardées
bombardées
20,902 corpus weight
- bontés
bontés
20,900 corpus weight
- boostez
boostez
20,899 corpus weight
- bordeau
bordeau
20,898 corpus weight
- borough
borough
20,896 corpus weight
- botta
botta
20,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bordeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bordeau » en français
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
- 1Variante de bordel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bordeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qui mettent à l’encan l’honneur dans les bordeaux.
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.
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