borre
\ˈbo.re\
The verdict
“borre” is uncommon French (frequency #88,398 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,398
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de borrar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-borre · borre · French
borre · rank #88,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,398
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH borax
Nearest frequency peer: borax (-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 « borre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bonapartisme
bonapartisme
11,607 corpus weight
- borax
borax
11,604 corpus weight
- borre
borre
11,603 corpus weight
- borée
borée
11,602 corpus weight
- bossaient
bossaient
11,601 corpus weight
- bossus
bossus
11,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « borre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | borre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbo.re\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « borre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
borre is uncommon French at frequency #88,398 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈbo.re\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for borre in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is borre, spelled B-O-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de borrar.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de borrar.
- 3Troisième personne du singulier de l’impératif de borrar.
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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