Bourdeau
The verdict
“Bourdeau” is uncommon French (frequency #74,612 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,612
- 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-bourdeau · Bourdeau · French
Bourdeau · rank #74,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,612
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bourbaki
Nearest frequency peer: Bourbaki (-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 « Bourdeau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- brancardier
brancardier
25,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bourdeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bourdeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bourdeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bourdeau is uncommon French at frequency #74,612 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Bourdeau has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Bourdeau, spelled B-O-U-R-D-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bourdeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Guillaume Martocq (54e) a conclu le deuxième essai en bout de ligne avant une troisième réalisation signée Rémi Bourdeau (75e), arrivé cet été de La Rochelle.
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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