Bourcier
The verdict
“Bourcier” is uncommon French (frequency #71,303 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,303
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bourcier · Bourcier · French
Bourcier · rank #71,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,303
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH borrel
Nearest frequency peer: borrel (-2 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 « Bourcier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bonnaud
Bonnaud
28,702 corpus weight
- borrel
borrel
28,700 corpus weight
- Bourcier
Bourcier
28,698 corpus weight
- Bourgueil
Bourgueil
28,696 corpus weight
- boutonne
boutonne
28,695 corpus weight
- brahmanes
brahmanes
28,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bourcier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bourcier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bourcier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bourcier is uncommon French at frequency #71,303 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Bourcier has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Bourcier, spelled B-O-U-R-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bourcier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’après Sam Bourcier, porte-parole non officiel du collectif Archives LGBTQI+, cette « scission » s’explique parce que les associations en question « voulaient diviser le lieu en trois ».
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).