bornage
\bɔʁ.naʒ\
The verdict
“bornage” is uncommon French (frequency #65,748 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,748
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de planter des bornes pour marquer les limites d’un champ, d’une propriété rurale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bornage · bornage · French
bornage · rank #65,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,748
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bormes
Nearest frequency peer: Bormes (-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 « bornage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- borda
borda
34,255 corpus weight
- Bormes
Bormes
34,254 corpus weight
- bornage
bornage
34,253 corpus weight
- boueuses
boueuses
34,252 corpus weight
- bougres
bougres
34,251 corpus weight
- bounce
bounce
34,250 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bornage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bornage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁ.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bornage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bornage is uncommon French at frequency #65,748 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔʁ.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bornage has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bornage, spelled B-O-R-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de planter des bornes pour marquer les limites d’un champ, d’une propriété rurale.
- 2Navigation côtière effectuée par des bateaux de faible tonnage à une distance limitée de leur port d’attache.
- 3Position géographique d'un téléphone portable resté en mémoire lors du dernier appel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bornage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils sont en différend pour le bornage de leurs terres.
Action en bornage, action qu’un propriétaire intente à son voisin pour l’obliger au bornage de leurs propriétés contiguës.
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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