Borges
The verdict
“Borges” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,631. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,631
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-borges · Borges · French
Borges · rank #40,631 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,631
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bordj
Nearest frequency peer: bordj (-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 « Borges »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bonifacio
Bonifacio
59,372 corpus weight
- bordj
bordj
59,371 corpus weight
- Borges
Borges
59,370 corpus weight
- Bornéo
Bornéo
59,369 corpus weight
- botox
botox
59,368 corpus weight
- bouseux
bouseux
59,367 corpus weight
What this shows « Borges » 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 | Borges |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Borges »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Borges, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,631 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Borges, with forms such as "bborges", "bogres", and "boregs". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bouge", "borne", "boris", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Borges, spelled B-O-R-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Borges appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sébastien Dos Santos Borges.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bborges
- bogres
- boregs
- borgess
- borgges
- borgse
- borrges
- broges
- obrges
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Borges - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).