borne
\bɔʁn\
The verdict
“borne” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #8,814 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,814
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pierre, arbre ou autre marque qui sert à séparer un champ d’avec un autre.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “borne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for borne is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔʁn\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,814 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for borne, with forms such as "bborne", "bonre", and "boren". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bre", "boxe", "boue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is borne, spelled B-O-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Pierre, arbre ou autre marque qui sert à séparer un champ d’avec un autre.
- 2Espèce de colonne qui marquait l’extrémité de la carrière dans les cirques des anciens.
- 3Colonne qui marque les distances sur les routes, généralement, en kilomètres. On dit surtout dans ce sens « borne kilométrique ».
- 4Kilomètre.
- 5Pierres plantées debout qu’on met à côté des portes, le long des murailles, ou à l’encoignure des édifices, pour empêcher qu’ils ne soient endommagés par les voitures, ou dont on borde un chemin, une place publique, un port, etc.
- 6Pièce métallique souvent isolée sur laquelle se raccorde un conducteur électrique relié à un composant électrique.
- 7Tout ce qui sépare un État, une province d’un autre.
- 8Plus petit des majorants (borne supérieure), ou plus grand des minorants (borne inférieure) d’une partie d’un ensemble ordonné (partiellement ou totalement).
- 9Extrémité, fin de l’étendue, de la durée.
- 10Limite, au sens moral.
- 11Carreau en forme de losange ou en hexagone barlong.
- 12Canapé circulaire avec un dossier au milieu.
- 13Cheminée dans laquelle on suspend de la viande de porc pour la faire fumer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bborne,bonre,boren,bornne,borrne,brone,obrne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of borne - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “borne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-R-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɔʁn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “bre” - see the side-by-side comparison. borne vs bre
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.