bourdon
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,766
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
bourdon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Long bâton de pèlerin surmonté d’une gourde, ou d’un ornement en forme de pomme. Pronounced \buʁ.dɔ̃\. Often confused with bouton and Burton.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourdon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bourdon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \buʁ.dɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,766 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for bourdon, with forms such as "bbourdon", "borudon", and "boudron". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "bouton", "Burton", "bourrin", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bourdon, spelled B-O-U-R-D-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Long bâton de pèlerin surmonté d’une gourde, ou d’un ornement en forme de pomme.
- 2Meuble représentant un bâton de pèlerin dans des armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pal. Il est préférentiellement qualifié de bourdon de pèlerin dans les blasonnements. À rapprocher de bâton de prieur, bâton prieural, bourdon de pèlerin et crosse.
- 3Bâton de magicien.
- 4Grosse lance creuse utilisée par les chevaliers dans les tournois.
- 5Ganse ou bourrelet inséré dans un biais ou dans une couture formant une ligne brodée en relief.
- 6Fil ou paire de fils, plus épais que les autres fils utilisés pour la réalisation de l’ouvrage, destinés à faire ressortir un motif.
- 7Perche de bois faite d’une branche d’arbre dont on a ôté l’écorce.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbourdon,borudon,boudron,bourddon,bourdno,bourdonn,bourodn,bourrdon,buordon,oburdon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bourdon
Misspelling Variants of "bourdon"
Frequency rank: #19,766 in French
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