borna
\bɔʁ.na\
The verdict
“borna” is uncommon French (frequency #72,124 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,124
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe borner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-borna · borna · French
borna · rank #72,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,124
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boring
Nearest frequency peer: boring (-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 « borna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bonet
bonet
27,879 corpus weight
- boring
boring
27,878 corpus weight
- borna
borna
27,877 corpus weight
- bouffeur
bouffeur
27,876 corpus weight
- bouffonne
bouffonne
27,875 corpus weight
- bouquiner
bouquiner
27,874 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « borna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « borna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
borna is uncommon French at frequency #72,124 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɔʁ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe borner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for borna in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is borna, spelled B-O-R-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe borner.
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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