bordelaise
\bɔʁ.də.lɛz\
The verdict
“bordelaise” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,711. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,711
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race laitière de bovin, originaire de France (Gironde), à robe pie noire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bordelaise · bordelaise · French
bordelaise · rank #27,711 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,711
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH béquilles
Nearest frequency peer: béquilles (+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 « bordelaise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aviaire
aviaire
72,294 corpus weight
- banco
banco
72,292 corpus weight
- bordelaise
bordelaise
72,290 corpus weight
- béquilles
béquilles
72,289 corpus weight
- cabaye
cabaye
72,287 corpus weight
- calculateur
calculateur
72,286 corpus weight
What this shows « bordelaise » 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 | bordelaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.də.lɛz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bordelaise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around bordelaise (IPA \bɔʁ.də.lɛz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,711 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for bordelaise, with forms such as "bbordelaise", "bodrelaise", and "borddelaise". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bordelais", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bordelaise, spelled B-O-R-D-E-L-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Race laitière de bovin, originaire de France (Gironde), à robe pie noire.
- 2Bouteille typique pour contenir les vins de Bordeaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bordelaise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'était un vin de goût très muscat, sirupeux, très sucré, de couleur ambrée foncée, se présentant en bouteilles de forme et de contenance tout à fait comparables à nos petites bordelaises actuelles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbordelaise
- bodrelaise
- borddelaise
- bordealise
- bordelaies
- bordelaisse
- bordelasie
- bordeliase
- bordellaise
- bordleaise
- boredlaise
- borrdelaise
- brodelaise
- obrdelaise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bordelaise - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).