border
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,469
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
border is aFrenchverb. It means: Garnir sur le bord d’un ruban, d’un galon, d’un morceau d’étoffe, de toile, etc. Pronounced \bɔʁ.de\. Often confused with bore and bords.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | border |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for border is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔʁ.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,469 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for border, with forms such as "bborder", "bodrer", and "bordder". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bore", "bords", "borne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is border, spelled B-O-R-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Garnir sur le bord d’un ruban, d’un galon, d’un morceau d’étoffe, de toile, etc.
- 2Attacher une corde autour d’un filet pour le rendre plus fort.
- 3Engager le bout des draps et de la couverture entre le bas du lit et le matelas.
- 4Se dit aussi pour la personne qui est dans le lit.
- 5S’étendre, régner le long de certaines choses et y servir comme de bord.
- 6Ranger des troupes en longue ligne sur un des côtés ou de chaque côté d’une rue, d’un chemin où doit passer un personnage important, un cortège, etc.
- 7Tendre une voile ou la ramener contre la coque.
- 8Revêtir la membrure de bordages.
- 9côtoyer, naviguer le long des côtes ou d’un autre navire.
- 10Planter une bordure ou la mettre en valeur.
- 11Se garnir de.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bborder,bodrer,bordder,borderr,bordre,boredr,borrder,obrder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for border
Misspelling Variants of "border"
Frequency rank: #23,469 in French
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Nearby French words
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