bour
\buʁ\
The verdict
“bour” is uncommon French (frequency #50,096 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,096
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Valet d’atout, au jeu de jass ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bour · bour · French
bour · rank #50,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,096
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouclage
Nearest frequency peer: bouclage (-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 « bour »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bolchoï
Bolchoï
49,908 corpus weight
- bonis
bonis
49,907 corpus weight
- bouclage
bouclage
49,906 corpus weight
- bour
bour
49,905 corpus weight
- boutonnière
boutonnière
49,904 corpus weight
- broyés
broyés
49,903 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bour » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bour is uncommon French at frequency #50,096 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bour doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bour, spelled B-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Valet d’atout, au jeu de jass ^([1]).
- 2Zone de culture.
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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