bornent
\bɔʁn\
The verdict
“bornent” is uncommon French (frequency #81,822 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,822
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe borner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bornent · bornent · French
bornent · rank #81,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,822
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bondissent
Nearest frequency peer: bondissent (-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 « bornent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boisement
boisement
18,183 corpus weight
- bolus
bolus
18,181 corpus weight
- bondissent
bondissent
18,180 corpus weight
- bornent
bornent
18,179 corpus weight
- boudeur
boudeur
18,176 corpus weight
- bousculaient
bousculaient
18,175 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bornent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bornent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bornent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bornent is uncommon French at frequency #81,822 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɔʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bornent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bornent, spelled B-O-R-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe borner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe borner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bornent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seuls parmi les paranoïaques, les paranoïaques hallucinés et les paranoïaques influencés fabriquent réellement des dieux, encore se bornent-ils, la plupart du temps, à doter un persécuteur ou un influenceur de qualités divines ou diaboliques, à le supra-humaniser plus encore qu'à le diviniser ou le diaboliser.
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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