borgne
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,912
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
borgne is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui ne voit que d’un œil, à qui il manque un œil. Pronounced \bɔʁɲ\. Often confused with born and bouge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borgne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \bɔʁɲ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for borgne is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔʁɲ\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,912 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for borgne, with forms such as "bborgne", "bogrne", and "borgen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "born", "bouge", "brune", 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 borgne, spelled B-O-R-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui ne voit que d’un œil, à qui il manque un œil.
- 2Légume, généralement un chou, dont le bourgeon, figurant un œil, a disparu.
- 3Qualifie une ancre qui n’a qu’une patte qui est mouillée sans avoir de bouée.
- 4Qualifie une fenêtre disposée de façon qu’elle éclaire le dedans d’une pièce sans permettre de voir au-dehors → voir aveugle.
- 5Qualifie une maison, un appartement sombre et obscur.
- 6Qualifie un établissement qui est mal famé ou de mauvaise apparence.
- 7Qualifie un compte qui n’est pas juste.
- 8Qualifie un trou qui ne traverse pas son substrat, qui ne présente qu'un seul orifice.
- 9Qualifie un objet percé de cette manière.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bborgne,bogrne,borgen,borggne,borgnne,bornge,borrgne,brogne,obrgne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for borgne
Misspelling Variants of "borgne"
Frequency rank: #25,912 in French
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Nearby French words
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