bourane
\bu.ʁan\
The verdict
“bourane” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mancône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourane · bourane · French
bourane · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bourane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bourane is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʁan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mancône.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bourane in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 bourane, spelled B-O-U-R-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Mancône.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bourane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est désigné chez les Portugais et les peuplades environnantes sous le nom de mancône ou l'arbre d'eau rouge ; les Floups le nomment bourane (boire) ; son écorce rougeâtre est un poison violent ; elle sert à composer la boisson dont se servent les noirs dans l'épreuve des jugements de Dieu.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.