Borgia

name

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The verdict

“Borgia” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,074. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,074
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Illustre famille noble qui a donné plusieurs papes, Calixte III et Alexandre VI.

Corpus desk

Index FR-borgia · Borgia · French

Borgia · rank #30,074 · 8 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,074
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bondit

Nearest frequency peer: bondit (-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 « Borgia »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Borgia » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Borgia vs boris
50% similar
Borgia vs Borgo
67% similar
Borgia vs bougie
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Borgia
PropertyValue
HeadwordBorgia
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#30,074
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Borgia »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Borgiase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bondit » (#30,073), « boréal » (#30,075), « bilatérales » (#30,072). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Borgia » est au #30,074. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Borgia, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,074 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Illustre famille noble qui a donné plusieurs papes, Calixte III et Alexandre VI.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Borgia, with forms such as "bborgia", "bogria", and "borgai". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "boris", "Borgo", "bougie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Borgia, spelled B-O-R-G-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Illustre famille noble qui a donné plusieurs papes, Calixte III et Alexandre VI.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Borgia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Lucrèce Borgia.
  2. Les appartements Borgia sont une série de six pièces monumentales dans le Palais apostolique du Vatican, créées comme la résidence privée du pape Alexandre VI et de sa famille.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bborgia
  • bogria
  • borgai
  • borggia
  • boriga
  • borrgia
  • brogia
  • obrgia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Borgia - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

bborgia1bogria2borgai2borggia1boriga2borrgia1brogia2obrgia2
Edit distance from "Borgia"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Borgia"?
"Borgia" is spelled B-O-R-G-I-A.
What does "Borgia" mean?
As a proper noun, "Borgia" means: Illustre famille noble qui a donné plusieurs papes, Calixte III et Alexandre VI.
What words are commonly confused with "Borgia"?
"Borgia" is commonly confused with "boris", "Borgo", "bougie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Borgia" come from?
"Borgia" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Borgia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bondit#30,073boréal#30,075bottom#30,077carcan#30,088

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

apporta8 variantsamuses8 variantscobaye8 variantsaidons8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list