bordier
\bɔʁ.dje\
The verdict
“bordier” is uncommon French (frequency #64,280 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,280
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d'un navire qui a un côté plus lourd que l’autre, qui incline plus d’un côté que de l’autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bordier · bordier · French
bordier · rank #64,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,280
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blasphèmes
Nearest frequency peer: blasphèmes (-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 « bordier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bipède
bipède
35,724 corpus weight
- bizness
bizness
35,723 corpus weight
- blasphèmes
blasphèmes
35,722 corpus weight
- bordier
bordier
35,721 corpus weight
- Botticelli
Botticelli
35,720 corpus weight
- bouclées
bouclées
35,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bordier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.dje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bordier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bordier is uncommon French at frequency #64,280 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɔʁ.dje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bordier, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bordier, spelled B-O-R-D-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se dit d'un navire qui a un côté plus lourd que l’autre, qui incline plus d’un côté que de l’autre.
- 2Qui est en bordure d'un océan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bordier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un bâtiment bordier.
La Manche est une mer bordière de l'océan Atlantique.
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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