bourbier
\buʁ.bje\
The verdict
“bourbier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,832
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu creux et plein de bourbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourbier · bourbier · French
bourbier · rank #35,832 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,832
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bonnard
Nearest frequency peer: bonnard (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourbier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- biosphère
biosphère
64,172 corpus weight
- boivin
boivin
64,171 corpus weight
- bonnard
bonnard
64,170 corpus weight
- bourbier
bourbier
64,169 corpus weight
- Brahms
Brahms
64,168 corpus weight
- Bresson
Bresson
64,167 corpus weight
What this shows « bourbier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourbier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.bje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bourbier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bourbier (IPA \buʁ.bje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,832 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bourbier, with forms such as "bbourbier", "borubier", and "boubrier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "bouvier", "bourrer", "boursier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bourbier, spelled B-O-U-R-B-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Lieu creux et plein de bourbe.
- 2Situation difficile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bourbier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; car l’averse continue, torrentielle, et la nuit est si froide et si noire… D’ailleurs les environs ne sont plus qu’un vaste bourbier, et, grâce au thé et au brasero, je me sens si bien à l’aise dans la tente du chîkh que je consens volontiers à y rester.
Tiré du bourbier ?… allons donc ! Tu n’as que la tête hors de la vase, le reste est encore englué.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbourbier
- borubier
- boubrier
- bourbbier
- bourbeir
- bourbierr
- bourbire
- bouriber
- bourrbier
- buorbier
- oburbier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bourbier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).