borie
\bɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“borie” is uncommon French (frequency #66,544 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,544
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand domaine agricole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-borie · borie · French
borie · rank #66,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,544
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Boisbriand
Nearest frequency peer: Boisbriand (-2 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 « borie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- binette
binette
33,462 corpus weight
- bisexuelles
bisexuelles
33,461 corpus weight
- BNS
BNS
33,460 corpus weight
- Boisbriand
Boisbriand
33,459 corpus weight
- borie
borie
33,457 corpus weight
- brade
brade
33,454 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « borie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « borie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
borie is uncommon French at frequency #66,544 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for borie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is borie, spelled B-O-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Grand domaine agricole.
- 2Cabane de pierres sèches qui servait au paysan, propriétaire d'une parcelle éloignée du village, à remiser des outils, à entreposer provisoirement sa récolte, à abriter un animal de bât et à se protéger des intempéries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how borie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y aurait lieu d’examiner ici la place qu’ont pu y tenir des traditions celtiques toujours attestées dans les Îles Britanniques par ce qui subsiste d’anciens tumulus de forme ronde, et cela nous conduirait à retrouver en France même, et dans toutes les régions peuplées par les Celtes, le goût pour la forme circulaire dans les habitations, qu’il s’agisse…
Elles sont désignées dans ce secteur sous le nom de « bories », (…), je suis obligé de l’employer faute d’un autre, pour désigner cet édifice…
This word in other languages
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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