bory
\buɾʲ\
The verdict
“bory” is uncommon French (frequency #67,332 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,332
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bory · bory · French
bory · rank #67,332 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,332
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouffi
Nearest frequency peer: bouffi (+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 « bory »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bollène
Bollène
32,672 corpus weight
- bonzes
bonzes
32,671 corpus weight
- bory
bory
32,669 corpus weight
- bouffi
bouffi
32,668 corpus weight
- bougeaient
bougeaient
32,667 corpus weight
- Boutros
Boutros
32,666 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bory » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bory |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buɾʲ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bory » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bory is uncommon French at frequency #67,332 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buɾʲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rond.".
bory doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bory, spelled B-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Rond.
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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