borée
\bɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“borée” is uncommon French (frequency #88,399 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,399
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vent du Nord, l’un des plus froids et des plus violents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boree · borée · French
borée · rank #88,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,399
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH borre
Nearest frequency peer: borre (-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 « borée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- borax
borax
11,604 corpus weight
- borre
borre
11,603 corpus weight
- borée
borée
11,602 corpus weight
- bossaient
bossaient
11,601 corpus weight
- bossus
bossus
11,600 corpus weight
- botanic
botanic
11,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « borée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « borée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
borée is uncommon French at frequency #88,399 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for borée, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is borée, spelled B-O-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Vent du Nord, l’un des plus froids et des plus violents.
- 2Meuble représentant un visage soufflant dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de aquilon et Éole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how borée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ô muse de mon cœur, amante des palais, Auras-tu, quand Janvier lâchera ses Borées, Durant les noirs ennuis des neigeuses soirées, Un tison pour chauffer tes deux pieds violets ?
La monstrueuse enflure des borées qui soufflent la gloire n’était rien en comparaison de l’enflure délirante des inscriptions, outrage aux nations qu’on voit renversées de la foudre, terrassées, garrottées.
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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