borne
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,814
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
borne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pierre, arbre ou autre marque qui sert à séparer un champ d’avec un autre. Pronounced \bɔʁn\. It ranks #8,814 in French word frequency. Often confused with bre and boxe.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for borne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for borne, with forms such as "bborne", "bonre", and "boren". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is borne, spelled B-O-R-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for borne
Misspelling Variants of "borne"
Frequency rank: #8,814 in French
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