bourdon de pèlerin
\buʁ.dɔ̃ də pɛl.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“bourdon de pèlerin” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Meuble représentant un bâton de pèlerin dans des armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pal. À rapprocher de bâton de prieur, bâton prieural, bourdon et crosse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourdon de pèlerin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʁ.dɔ̃ də pɛl.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bourdon de pèlerin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bourdon de pèlerin is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \buʁ.dɔ̃ də pɛl.ʁɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Meuble représentant un bâton de pèlerin dans des armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pal. À rapprocher de bâton de prieur, bâton prieural, bourdon et crosse.".
bourdon de pèlerin has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bourdon de pèlerin, spelled B-O-U-R-D-O-N- -D-E- -P-È-L-E-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Meuble représentant un bâton de pèlerin dans des armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pal. À rapprocher de bâton de prieur, bâton prieural, bourdon et crosse.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bourdon de pèlerin”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-R-D-O-N- -D-E- -P-È-L-E-R-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.