borgnes
\bɔʁɲ\
The verdict
“borgnes” is uncommon French (frequency #78,193 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,193
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de borgne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-borgnes · borgnes · French
borgnes · rank #78,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,193
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bougeotte
Nearest frequency peer: bougeotte (+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 « borgnes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bobard
bobard
21,812 corpus weight
- bonifiée
bonifiée
21,811 corpus weight
- borgnes
borgnes
21,808 corpus weight
- bougeotte
bougeotte
21,807 corpus weight
- Bougival
Bougival
21,806 corpus weight
- bouleversées
bouleversées
21,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « borgnes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borgnes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɔʁɲ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « borgnes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
borgnes is uncommon French at frequency #78,193 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɔʁɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de borgne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for borgnes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is borgnes, spelled B-O-R-G-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de borgne.
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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