bordeaux
\bɔʁ.do\
The verdict
“bordeaux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,728
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couleur intermédiaire entre le rouge et le violet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bordeaux · bordeaux · French
bordeaux · rank #1,728 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,728
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Achat
Nearest frequency peer: Achat (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bordeaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transports
transports
98,276 corpus weight
- utile
utile
98,275 corpus weight
- Achat
Achat
98,274 corpus weight
- bordeaux
bordeaux
98,273 corpus weight
- bâtiment
bâtiment
98,272 corpus weight
- cerveau
cerveau
98,271 corpus weight
What this shows « bordeaux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordeaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.do\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bordeaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bordeaux (IPA \bɔʁ.do\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,728 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Couleur intermédiaire entre le rouge et le violet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bordeaux, with forms such as "bbordeaux", "bodreaux", and "bordaeux". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "bureaux", "bouleaux", "bourreaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bordeaux, spelled B-O-R-D-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Couleur intermédiaire entre le rouge et le violet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bordeaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis il appela la réception, questionna l’homme en veste bordeaux.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbordeaux
- bodreaux
- bordaeux
- borddeaux
- bordeauxx
- bordeaxu
- bordeuax
- boredaux
- borrdeaux
- brodeaux
- obrdeaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bordeaux - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bordeaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).