bordure
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,206
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
bordure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui garnit, orne ou renforce le bord de quelque chose. Pronounced \bɔʁ.dyʁ\. It ranks #8,206 in French word frequency. Often confused with bordures and borde.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bordure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.dyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bordure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔʁ.dyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,206 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for bordure, with forms such as "bbordure", "bodrure", and "borddure". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bordures", "borde", "bordée", 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 bordure, spelled B-O-R-D-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui garnit, orne ou renforce le bord de quelque chose.
- 2Ce qui garnit, orne ou renforce le bord de quelque chose.
- 3Brisure qui entoure l’écu et dont la couleur est toujours différente de l’émail du champ.
- 4Lisière d'un bois, d'une forêt.
- 5Rangée de plantes alignées à la limite d'un chemin, d'un gazon, etc.
- 6Rang de gros pavés qui terminent et retiennent chacun des deux côtés d’une chaussée.
- 7Bande de couleur faisant le tour d’un drapeau et touchant les bords.
- 8Séparation par vent latéral de la tête du peloton en éventail et du reste des coureurs en file indienne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbordure,bodrure,borddure,bordrue,borduer,bordurre,borrdure,borudre,brodure,obrdure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bordure
Misspelling Variants of "bordure"
Frequency rank: #8,206 in French
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Nearby French words
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