Bourbaki
\buʁ.ba.ki\
The verdict
“Bourbaki” is uncommon French (frequency #74,611 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,611
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille d’origine grecque, notamment représenté par le général Charles Bourbaki (1816-1897).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourbaki · Bourbaki · French
Bourbaki · rank #74,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,611
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bouguenais
Nearest frequency peer: Bouguenais (-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 « Bourbaki »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bosseurs
bosseurs
25,393 corpus weight
- Boswell
Boswell
25,392 corpus weight
- Bouguenais
Bouguenais
25,391 corpus weight
- Bourbaki
Bourbaki
25,390 corpus weight
- Bourdeau
Bourdeau
25,389 corpus weight
- bovidés
bovidés
25,388 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bourbaki » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bourbaki |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.ba.ki\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bourbaki » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bourbaki is uncommon French at frequency #74,611 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \buʁ.ba.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille d’origine grecque, notamment représenté par le général Charles Bourbaki (1816-1897).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bourbaki in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Bourbaki, spelled B-O-U-R-B-A-K-I.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille d’origine grecque, notamment représenté par le général Charles Bourbaki (1816-1897).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bourbaki appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pauvre général Bourbaki n’est pas mort, bien qu’il se soit mis réellement une balle dans la tête. Les uns disent qu’il est légèrement blessé, d’autres qu’il l’est mortellement. Quoi qu’il en soit, il a voulu mourir ; c’est le seul général qui ait manqué de philosophie devant la défaite. Tous les autres se portent bien.
Quand, plus tard, j’appris qu’il avait existé un Bourbaki historique, et un général même, et même le seul général français à avoir un peu secoué les Prussiens en 1870, ça m’a donné à penser.
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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